Sherman v. Bobrecker

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Plaintiff Charles Sherman had verdict and judgment for $10,000 for personal injuries sustained when he, a tenant, having stepped through the doorway at the front entrance of defendant Samuel Bobrecker’s three-story, six-apartment building, fronting westwardly on Charlotte Street in Kansas City, stumbled over a child’s tricycle, fell and was injured.

Plaintiff’s case was submitted to the jury on the theory of negligence of defendant in failing in his assumed duty to illuminate the entrance and the small front lower foyer or lobby and upper halls of the building, which…