Elgin v. United States

REEVES, Chief Judge.

■ The plaintiff claims to have been injured in one of the elevators in the United States Courthouse and Postoffice Building, at 9th and Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, on the late afternoon of October 23rd, 1947. The plaintiff is an officer or employee of the government in the Internal Revenue offices located in said building. On the evening, or late afternoon, in question she had descended, with others, by elevator, from her place of employment to the first floor.

The elevators in the building are operated with automatic devices.. The plaintiff was among the last of…