Leisure v. JA Bruening Company

COIL, Commissioner.

Respondent, plaintiff below, received a verdict for $15,500 as damages for personal injuries sustained when defendant’s plate-glass window broke and a portion of the glass which fell cut plaintiff’s right arm. Defendant appealed from the ensuing judgment and contends that plaintiff failed ■ to make a submissible res ipsa loquitur case and that the judgment is excessive.

Defendant was the owner of the Centennial Building located at the northeast corner of Tenth and Central in Kansas City. That building, at least the portion thereof here involved, was constructed in 1951. The…