Gray v. Levy

Action ex delicto. The parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant as designated below. Plaintiff sued defendant and her husband, Leo Levy, to recover damage on account of personal injury received by him when he fell into an elevator shaft from the lobby of the Glennon Hotel in Kansas City, then operated by defendant. The pleadings are unquestioned. The petition alleged among other acts of negligence that defendants negligently "permitted the door leading into said elevator to be open when the elevator was not at said floor level, all of which was reasonably likely to cause…