Fiskaa v. Miller

This action was commenced by Andrew Fiskaa and wife against C. Dayton Durochur and wife, M. P. Miller and wife, and John Doe Butterfield and wife, as owners and operators of the Commercial hotel, in Kennewick, Washington, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by Andrew Fiskaa, on the morning of April 20, 1945, while he was a transient guest in the hotel.

It is alleged the injuries were caused by the negligence of defendants in maintaining off a lower hallway an unguarded open doorway at the top of a steep stairway leading to the basement, which lower hallway,…