Garrett v. Eugene Medical Center

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment, based upon a verdict, entered by the Circuit Court in favor of the plaintiff in an action instituted to recover damages for a personal injury which the plaintiff suffered in the freight elevator of a building owned by the defendant.

The plaintiff, as a member of a partnership entitled Garrett Appliance Company, was a tenant of the defendant’s building. December 10, 1948, at 9:00 p. m., when he was upon the first floor of the building, and no light was burning near the elevator, the plaintiff undertook to enter it, but, due to the fact that it…