242 S.W.2d 625 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1951
The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a directed verdict for the defendants in an action for personal injuries by Ruby Taylor.
. The plaintiff testified that after, dark on "November 9, 1948, she got off a bus on the Bardstown Road in Louisville and “went a straight line to the liquor store” to get some cigarettes and “just before I got to the liquor store there were boards laying out there * * * . and as I stepped on the boards they come out from under me and they went each way.” She fell into a depression or ditch and suffered some bruises and strains. She proved damages. The plaintiff’s further description of the occurrence and place is that the boards were over some water in a ditch, as she afterward discovered. She introduced a photograph which shows a paved parking lot between a building bearing a sign “Drive-in Liquors” and a restaurant. We would estimate its width as fifty or sixty feet. In referring to the picture, the plaintiff called attention to a manhole cap near "the doorway of the liquor store and indicated that it was about the place she fell. She was asked, “How far was the ditch from the place where you stepped on the board to the edge of the sidewalk which is "immediately in’ front of Mr. Dieruf’s Store?” She answered, “It looks like to me that ditch would be five or six feet from the store.” This is a summary of all the evidence in the case. !
Judgment affirmed.