SLABE v. BEYER

No. 2315.

149 A.2d 788 (1959)

Hazel G. SLABE, Appellant, v. Pauline V. BEYER, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 31, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Morrisson, Washington, D. C., with whom Joseph M. Del Nero, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Walter J. Murphy, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom H. Mason Welch, J. Harry Welch, J. Joseph Barse, and Arthur V. Butler, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant became a tenant in an apartment house owned by appellee in August 1956. Some six months later, she was raising a venetian blind in one of the rooms in her apartment when the entire blind assembly fell from its supporting brackets and struck her on the head, neck and back. She brought this action against appellee seeking damages for her injuries on the theory, as stated in her brief, that...

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