Markussen v. Mengedoht

Kroger, District Judge.

Ronald Markussen, an infant, brought this suit by his father as his next friend, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a fall on premises belonging to the defendant. There was a trial to a jury which resulted *473in a verdict in favor of plaintiff and from the order overruling defendant’s motion for new trial, this appeal is prosecuted.

The evidence discloses that the defendant is the owner of a four-story apartment building in the city of Omaha, and some nine months prior to the time of the accident in controversy plaintiff’s parents leased a suite on the…