Criswell v. Bankers Mortgage Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment overruling defendants’ demurrer to a petition in which plaintiff sought to recover damages for injuries she sustained in falling down a stairway in defendants’ hotel.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that defendants conducted a public hotel in Mankato, and that on January 2, 1928, she was a guest therein and had a room assigned to her. Plaintiff alleged that she was not familiar with the hotel except that she had a general knowledge of the location of her room; that about 8 o’clock in the evening she had to go…