Hesemann v. May Department Stores Co.

SUTTON, C.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while riding as a passenger on an escalator in defendant’s department store in the City of St. Louis. The trial of the cause, with a jury, resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $3,000, and defendant appeals.

The accident which resulted in plaintiff’s injury occurred on March 22, 1927. Plaintiff went to defendant’s store to assist her son, Edwin Hesemann, to select some clothing. She also intended to make some purchases for herself. She met her son at about 11 o’clock in the…