Muckler v. Buchl

Sheran, Justice.

Appeal from a district court judgment.

About 8:30 p. m., on August 11, 1962, plaintiff’s decedent, a 55-year-old woman, fell down a flight of stairs extending from the landing between the first and second floors down to the first floor of the Minneapolis apartment house in which she had been a tenant for 7 years. She broke her hip in the fall and was taken to a hospital where she died less than 4 months later.

On March 15, 1963, decedent’s husband commenced an action for death by wrongful act against the apartment-house owner. At trial, which commenced August 9, 1965, plaintiff…