Stewart v. Weiner

Raper, District Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from the district court for Douglas county, in an action wherein plaintiff recovered a judgment for personal injuries sustained while escaping from a fire in the defendant’s hotel.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges that he was a guest in defendant’s hotel in a room on the fourth floor, and that a fire started in a store-room of the hotel, caused by the careless use of cigarettes by employees of the defendant; that defendant negligently failed to discover the fire in time to prevent the building from burning and injuring plaintiff; that…