Kezar v. Northern States Power Co.

The personal injury, which resulted in the damages for which plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant, under the safe-place statute, secs. 101.01 (11) and 101.06 were sustained by plaintiff on February 6, 1940, at about 9:30 a. m., when he, upon opening a rear exit door, slipped and fell as he was stepping out onto the upper platform of an outside stairway of a building owned by defendant. It was erected in 1905 and used for banking purposes until acquired by defendant in 1920. In 1930 the front portion of the building, which was separated from the rear portion thereof by a partition…