Oettinger v. Stewart

Plaintiff brought this action against the owners and operators of an apartment building in the city of Santa Monica to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have resulted from the negligent conduct of defendant May Stewart. The jury returned a verdict for defendants, and plaintiff appealed from the ensuing judgment.

On the afternoon of July 10,1940, plaintiff, a woman seventy-one years of age, called at the premises looking for an apartment. At the front of the building were three or four steps leading from the sidewalk to a small cement porch. Defendants, husband and wife, occupied…