Mathison v. Newton

This is a personal injury action in which the plain*364tiff appeals from a judgment for the defendants pursuant to a directed verdict.

Plaintiff was injured as the result of a fall into a sidewalk elevator shaft in the City of Portland. The defendants are W. D. Newton, doing business as Business Equipment Bureau, tenant of a building on abutting property for whose use in receiving and shipping merchandise the elevator was maintained, and Newton’s landlord, Morrison Twelveth, Inc., a corporation. On this appeal the ruling as to Morrison Twelveth, Inc., is not challenged and our only question is…