Farmers' & Mechanics' Nat. Bank v. Marshall

The Farmers' Mechanics' National Bank has appealed from a judgment rendered in favor of Mary Lou Marshall for damages as the result of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her while alighting from a passenger elevator operated by the defendant in its bank building in the city of Fort Worth for the use of its tenants and the public.

According to allegations in plaintiff's petition, on October 29, 1925, she entered the elevator for the purpose of going to the twenty-second floor of the building, and when she reached that floor and while alighting from the elevator, after the same…