Wheeler v. Hotel Stevens Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered March 9, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the defendant, in an action for personal - injuries.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The plaintiff wife stepped into an elevator shaft in the defendant’s hotel and sustained a serious injury, for *143which damages are sought in this action. The plaintiffs have appealed from an adverse verdict and judgment.
The facts are few and simple. The appellant wife and a friend testified, that they approached the elevator for the purpose of going to the room of the latter in the respondent’s hotel; that the door of the elevator shaft was open; that the elevator was not there, and that the appellant, thinking that she was stepping into the elevator, stepped into the shaft without touching the…
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