Chapman v. Moore

Plaintiff brings this suit against Thomas F. Moore for damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from a fall through the second floor gallery of the premises No. 1601 Chippewa street, owned by the defendant Moore.

There was judgment below in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $1,144, and defendant has appealed.

On the question of liability the defendant seems to rely entirely upon the contention that the accident did not happen, and his argument in this regard is based largely upon the ground that there was immediately under the hole in the gallery, through which plaintiff alleges she…