Ralston v. Mathew

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This was an action upon an oral contract. Judgment was for the defendants sustaining their demurrer to plaintiff’s petition. Plaintiff has appealed.

After the formal allegations, the petition alleged that defendant Mathew was the agent of Stanley, doing business as an adjustment company, and also the agent of the Northwestern Casualty Company; that plaintiff was injured by a fall down an unlighted stairway of the First Church of the Nazarene and plaintiff believed the fall was caused by the negligence of the church and plaintiff believed she…