Nolting v. Petersen

BRADY, Commissioner.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages resulting from a fall down a common stairway in defendants’ office building. Jury trial resulted in a verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $7,500.00. The trial court sustained the defendants’ motion for new trial specifying the two grounds upon which it based its ruling. We have herein determined that the first of these assigned reasons properly supports the trial court’s action and thus we need not rule upon the other. Accordingly, we will set out in this opinion only the facts that bear upon the contention defendants…