Morelock v. Degraw

The defendant appeals from a judgment of $500 rendered against him in favor of the plaintiff in the Circuit Court of Linn County in an action by the plaintiff against him for personal injuries sustained by her as the result of striking her head against a heavy, steel, vault door swinging over a stairway, in a building owned by the defendant in the city of Brookfield, Missouri, while she was ascending the stairway for the purpose of visiting a law office on the second floor of said building, which stairway and vatdt door were alleged to have been negligently constructed and maintained by the…