Ward v. Kellogg
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. E. E. ■ Porterfield. Judge. (1) A landlord is responsible for injuries to a third person arising from the bad repair of the sidewalk space upon which the leased premises abut, if the condition existed at the time the premises were let. Stoetzele v. Swearingen, 90 Mo. App. 588; Powers v. Ins. Co., 91 Mo. App. 55; Mancuso v. Kansas City, 74 Mo.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. E. E. ■ Porterfield. Judge. (1) A landlord is responsible for injuries to a third person arising from the bad repair of the sidewalk space upon which the leased premises abut, if the condition existed at the time the premises were let. Stoetzele v. Swearingen, 90 Mo. App. 588; Powers v. Ins. Co., 91 Mo. App. 55; Mancuso v. Kansas City, 74 Mo. App. 138; Timlin v. Oil Co., 126 N. T. 514. 2. There is no traveled way of a sidewalk less than its width and one traveling across a sidewalk is entitled to be safeguarded in the same degree as one…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
The circuit court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition on the ground that it fails to state a cause of action and on the refusal of plaintiff to amend, rendered judgment for defendants. Plaintiff, appealed and argues in her brief that her petition states a good cause. She alleges that she sustained personal injuries in consequence of defendant’s failure to maintain in a reasonably safe condition a stairway leading to the basement of a building owned by defendants and occupied by their tenant who conducted a barber shop therein. The building fronts on Delaware street, one of the public…
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- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. SlaughterIndiana Supreme Court · 1906
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