YORK v. MURPHY

No. 691.

141 S.E.2d 867 (1965)

264 N.C. 453

Mary Sikes YORK v. Clarence E. MURPHY and Dorothy Rogers Murphy.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Bowman, Southport, for plaintiff appellee.

Hogue, Hill & Rowe, by C. D. Hogue, Jr., Ronald D. Rowe, Wilmington, for defendant appellants.


HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff alleged her fall and the resulting injuries were proximately caused by the negligent failure of the defendants to provide for the plaintiff, an invitee, a reasonably safe means by which to enter and leave their business office. Specifically she insists the five and one-half inch step in the concrete walk was insufficiently lighted on the occasion of her injury and hence was unsafe.

The evidence in the record is sufficient to...

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