Crandall

Appellant conducts a general store in Phoenix, Arizona. Appellee, Mrs. Crandall, making her first visit thereto, entered the store for the purpose of making a purchase. She walked approximately the length of the room in which the store was situate and attempted to leave through a doorway at a distance from that through which she entered. As she attempted to pass through the doorway her foot struck an obstruction which caused her to fall forward through the doorway onto the sidewalk, resulting in her suffering a broken bip.

The doorway through which Mrs. Crandall fell had a crown type of threshold, curved so that the middle was elevated % of an inch above the floor, and the inner and outer edges were about % of an inch above .the floor. It consisted of three metal sections joined together at their ends so as ■to compose a strip as long as the width of the doorway and 6% inches wide. The junctures of the three sections were not flush, but fitted unevenly, forming ledges which ran across the threshold. At the points of connection of the sections there were ’three irregularly shaped pieces that had been chipped out of the metal, leaving holes ranging from 1% inches to 2% inches in…