Gorman v. World Publishing Co.

This is a negligence action brought by a business invitee against the owners of a building for injuries suffered in a fall near the entrance. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed.

On March 30, 1961, at 1:30 p.m., on a sunny day, the plaintiff, a woman 66 years of age, came by automobile to the Doctors’ Building in Omaha, Nebraska, to consult her physician, a tenant in the building. The defendant owned and maintained the building as an office building for physicians and others connected with the healing arts. Access to the defendant’s building was…