Mitchell ex rel. Mitchell v. Foran

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff when she struck her leg on an awning hook on the sill of the front window of a business building in Salina.

Defendant Foran owned the building, and his codefendant, the Salina Firestone Service Stores Company, was the tenant.

The locus in quo was as follows: Fifth street in Salina runs north and south. On its east side is a cement sidewalk twelve feet four inches wide. Facing westward on that street is a two-story brick building fifty feet wide. It has two storerooms on the…