TURNER v. HANSEN

No. 48887.

75 N.W.2d 341 (1956)

DeWayne Delmar TURNER, by his next friend and mother, Betty Turner, Appellees, v. Harry HANSEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Lee Black, and Connolly, O'Malley & McNutt, Des Moines, for appellant.

Theodore Duffield, and James A. Lorentzen, Des Moines, for appellees.


PETERSON, Justice.

Plaintiff is a boy two and one half years old. This is an action by his next friend and mother, Betty Turner, against the landlord of the family. Plaintiff alleges that by reason of a defectively fastened guard rail on the side of a stairway leading to the basement he fell a distance of nine feet to a cement floor, and suffered bruises and a permanent injury in the form of a scar over his eye. The jury...

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