Short v. Hoge

The offices of Zella F. Short’s attorneys were located on the seventeenth floor of the Hoge building in Seattle. Although three passenger elevators were provided for patrons, only one extended to the seventeenth floor. The others terminated on the sixteenth floor. June 3, 1957, Mrs. Short, upon entering the building, noted that the elevator markers on the ground floor level indicated that the one which serviced the seventeenth floor was already on it. She decided to take an elevator to the sixteenth floor and walk up the flight of stairs to the seventeenth floor.

After completing her business,…