Turner v. Hansen

Plaintiff is a boy two and one-half years old. This is an action by his next friend and mother, Betty Turner, against the landlord of the family. Plaintiff alleges that by reason of a defectively fastened guardrail on the side of a stairway leading to the basement he fell a distance of nine feet to a cement floor, and suffered bruises and a permanent injury in the form of a scar over his eye. The jury rendered verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $2000. Defendant appeals.

Betty Turner was a tenant of defendant at No. 703 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa. She had lived in an apartment in said…