ELLIOTT v. LEA COUNTY

No. 5732.

267 P.2d 131 (1954)

58 N.M. 147

ELLIOTT v. LEA COUNTY.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

February 17, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal & Girand, Hobbs, for appellant.

Cowan & Schubert, Joseph O. Walton, Hobbs, Jones, Hardie, Grambling & Howell, El Paso, Tex., for appellee.


LUJAN, Justice.

John Elliott brought an action against Lea County to recover damages for injuries received by him when he stepped into an open unguarded and unlighted ramp while leaving the Lea County Community Hospital premises. The facts are that appellant's wife was a pay patient in the above hospital for surgery; that about eight o'clock in the evening, on May 28, 1951, appellant visited his wife and stayed with her for about an hour; that he had not been at the...

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