Blatt v. Geo. H. Nettleton Home for Aged Women

COIL, C.

[345] The question here involves the tort liability of a private charitable organization. The facts necessary to a disposition are disclosed by plaintiff-appellant’s petition, dismissed on defendant-respondent’s motion, and are these:

Defendant owns and operates for profit a four-storied building in downtown Kansas City, the total space of which is leased or rented to various tenants and in which defendant negligently maintained a common stairway for the use of tenants and their invitees. Plaintiff, a business invitee of a third-floor tenant, who had sustained injury while using the…