O'Dell v. Dean

Action for $15,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been occasioned by defendant's negligence. Verdict and judgment were for the defendant and plaintiff appealed.

Plaintiff was an employee of a tenant in the Keystone Building, 1320-22 Main Street, Kansas City. He was injured when he stepped into an open passenger elevator shaft at the lobby floor level and fell to the bottom of the shaft. The cause was submitted on alleged negligence in failing to keep the first floor lobby and elevator shaft reasonably lighted, in failing to provide any guards, locks, railings or other device in…