Burling v. Schroeder Hotel Co.

The following opinion was filed May 7, 1940:

Feitz, J.

The plaintiff, H. R. Burling’ appeals from a judgment dismissing his action to recover damages from the defendant, Schroeder Hotel Company, for personal injury sustained upon his falling down a stairway in the defendant’s hotel. The stairway extended northward from the floor of the lobby to a dining room seven feet above the lobby floor. Commencing at the lobby floor the stairway was nineteen feet wide and there were three risers totaling nineteen and one-half inches to a landing, the north and south width of which was eleven feet. Above it…