Logsdon v. Central Development Ass'n

— This is an action in tort for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the sum of $500, and defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff, a tenant, from month to month, in defendant’s office building located in the City of Independence, on November I, 1934, while attempting to turn off the water on a lavatory in his office, cut his hand by the breaking of the porcelain handle of the faucet.

The evidence shows that plaintiff is an attorney-at-law and his offices were occupied by himself, his brother and his stenographer. There were 31 rooms in the office building in…