STEELE v. THORNE

No. 38960.

72 Wn.2d 714 (1967)

435 P.2d 544

JAMES STEELE et al., Appellants, v. CLARA THORNE, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

December 14, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miracle, Treadwell & Pruzan, by J. Porter Kelley, for appellants.

Martin, Shorts & Bever, by Edward C. Burch, for respondent.


HALE, J.

Plaintiff Maxine Steele's mother owned, operated and lived in the Brentwood Hotel in downtown Seattle. While visiting her mother there, plaintiff slipped and fell walking down a hall stairway, sustaining serious injuries. She brought this action against her mother for negligence in failing to maintain the stairway properly. The main question, as we see it, is the nature of duty owed by the defendant mother to her plaintiff daughter in maintaining the stairway...

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