Ditsch v. Kansas City Power & Light Co.

— This is an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the sum of $3000, and defendant has appealed.

The facts show that plaintiff was injured on December 27, 1937, when she fell through a trapdoor in her residence in Kansas City, which door had been left open bjr a meter reader employed by the defendant. Plaintiff, at the time of her injury, was fifty-nine years of age. She had lived in the house for a great many years. It consisted of two stories, containing six rooms, a bath, two halls and a basement. It had three- rooms on the first floor and'…