Lehman v. Amsterdam Coffee Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries. Tbe plaintiff, a laundress by occupation, sixty-five years of age, fell down an open stairway in tbe back part of tbe defendant’s coffee, tea, and food store in tbe city of Milwaukee, and suffered serious injuries. She claimed negligence in leaving the stairway open and unguarded and in failing to warn her of its existence.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries. Tbe plaintiff, a laundress by occupation, sixty-five years of age, fell down an open stairway in tbe back part of tbe defendant’s coffee, tea, and food store in tbe city of Milwaukee, and suffered serious injuries. She claimed negligence in leaving the stairway open and unguarded and in failing to warn her of its existence. The jury returned the following special verdict: “(1) Was the plaintiff injured by falling into an open stairway in defendant’s store, on October…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNsuow, C. J.
There is very little material dispute as to the facts of the accident. The defendant’s store is about eighty feet long and faces west. The rear half of the store is used for storage of coffee, tea, and other goods, and not for the reception of customers. In the extreme southeast corner is an open stairway in the floor, entered from the east, and surrounded on the north and west by a railing somewhat less than three feet in height, and on the south by the south wall ■of the store, upon which there was shelving. Around this railing on the north and west were piled bags of coffee, boxes of…
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