Patricks Inc. v. Mosseriano

2 Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a waitress at defendants restaurant at 23rd and Western in the City of Oklahoma City. She went to work for the defendant about the second week in December, 1952. On the evening of January 12, 1953, she reported for duty at 5:59. Her time to go to work was 6 P.M. She passed through the kitchen and down two steps into a stockroom back of the kitchen where she hung up her coat and got an apron and as she was walking back to go through the kitchen to the dining room she fell on the steps that went from the stockroom into the kitchen. Her testimony showed that these steps were wet; that they were not wet when she went down to get her apron but were wet when she came back. In order that this will be clear, we quote from her testimony: