Arnold v. Edelman

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a city employee using the revolving doors in City Hall in Kansas City. Plaintiff Hattie Arnold sued the contractors who installed the doors, John H. Edelman *169and T. Lowrie Lyon, a partnership, for $100,000. A jury returned a verdict for $36,000. Defendants have appealed from a judgment against them for $30,000, to which figure the verdict was reduced by re-mittitur.

Plaintiff charged negligent failure of defendants to set the panic-exit device on the revolving doors at the proper pressure to prevent collapse of the doors…