Ruling on lavatories
(N Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) KNOXVILLE (Tennessee) February 5. Ladies must not stand on lavatory seats, according to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
“The toilet seat is designed for the human posterior and not for the pedal extremity,” said Special Justice Mr Erby Jenkins when the Court dismissed a claim by a woman that she injured her leg when a lavatory seat lid broke. Mrs Dorothy Elliott, in a suit for $50,000 damages contended that a lavatory seat in a Chattanooga store broke when she climbed on it to reach a light-switch. Mr Jenkins, in a 10-page opinion, noted that the defendant, the makers, had gone into great detail to describe what a lavatory was for. “It must be presumed that the Court knows at least the elementary principles of our way of life and we do not need to be told what a toilet ... is for. It is a matter of common knowledge that the older one gets, the more accustomed one becomes to that fact,” he added.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32524, 6 February 1971, Page 15
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