Lattner v. Immaculate Conception Church

Plaintiff, Elsie Lattner, an elderly widow, brought this law action against defendant, Immaculate Conception Church, to recover for serious personal injuries sustained in a fall at the bottom of stairs leading to a basement room in the *122church in Cedar Rapids. Defendant has appealed from judgment on jury Verdict for plaintiff.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to direct a verdict for it on the grounds it was not negligent in any of the respects submitted to the jury and plaintiff was eontribu-torily negligent as a matter of law. Error is also assigned in submitting to the…