Moore v. Miles

LARSON, Chief Justice.

Appeal from judgment in the District Court of Salt Lake County awarding plaintiff $750 damages for personal injuries.

Plaintiff, a guest at defendant’s hotel, left her room to go to her car in the parking lot maintained by the hotel, to the west of the building. Extending east and west across the building, on the same floor as plaintiff’s room, was a hallway, the east end of which turned down into the lobby by an “L” stairway. At the west end was a short flight of stairs leading directly to a door opening on the parking lot. Plaintiff fell down these steps and sustained a…