Shaw v. Goldman

TMs is an action for ten thousand dollars damages, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, from falling into an elevator-well on the defendant’s premises, No. 1102 Olive Street, St. Louis, on the sixteenth of December, 1901.

The petition alleges that the elevator is in a small room in the rear of No. 1102, and is separated from the front of the store by a partition, in which there is a swinging door, and that while transacting business *462with one of defendant’s salesmen, lie was directed by the salesman to go through said door and into said room, and in compliance…