Becker v. Lincoln Real Estate & Building Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from. St. Louis City Circuit Court . — Hon. Wm. Zachritz, Judge. Respondent was a carrier of passengers and as such was held to the same high degree of care as a common carrier of passengers for hire — that is, to the highest degree of care of practical and skillful carriers by passenger elevators. Lee v. Knapp & Co., 155 Mo. 641. The judgment rendered in this cause for defendant was for the right party, and should be allowed to stand.
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Appeal from. St. Louis City Circuit Court . — Hon. Wm. Zachritz, Judge. Respondent was a carrier of passengers and as such was held to the same high degree of care as a common carrier of passengers for hire — that is, to the highest degree of care of practical and skillful carriers by passenger elevators. Lee v. Knapp & Co., 155 Mo. 641. The judgment rendered in this cause for defendant was for the right party, and should be allowed to stand. Under the pleadings and evidence the case should not have been submitted to the jury: (a) Because the_ evidence shows that the accident was due h> no…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This is an action for fifteen thousand dollars damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on April 10, 1900, while a passenger in one of defendant’s elevators, in its building on the'corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets in St. Louis. The petition alleges that she entered the elevator “to be carried as such passenger to the fourth floor of said building, and to be there allowed an opportunity to alight *248from said elevator. Yet the plaintiff avers that whilst said elevator was stopped at said fourth floor of said building to enable passengers to alight from said elevator, and…
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