Stemley v. Downtown Medical Building, Inc.

RENDLEN, Judge.

From 1976 through April 1980 the Downtown Medical Building, Inc. (Downtown) contracted with General Elevator Engineering Co. (General), a Missouri corporation, to examine, maintain and repair the signal devices, enclosures, doors and interlocks of the elevator in its building at 819 Locust Street in St. Louis.1

On April 7, 1980, plaintiff Orless Stemley stepped through an open elevator door in the Downtown building and learned to her dismay, as she fell down the shaft, that the elevator was not in position at the floor she sought to board. At that time Leonard Schuler, Jack…