Ross v. Heberling

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment dismissing plaintiff’s second amended petition after the sustaining of a demurrer thereto.

Plaintiff, a minor seven years' old, brings his action for damages against the defendant as owner of an apartment building on account of the alleged negligent construction of an outside stairway leading from the sidewalk to the second floor on which is located an apartment occupied by plaintiff’s uncle, whom plaintiff and his father had visited before his fall. The handrail consisted of an iron pipe, thirty inches above the steps, supported by three…