GENSLER-LEE OF RENO v. GEERTSON

No. 4018.

318 P.2d 1113 (1957)

GENSLER-LEE OF RENO, Inc., Appellant, v. Niomia GEERTSON, Fritze L. Coblentz, Kate N. Dodd, Kate N. Dodd, as the Guardian of the person and estate of Richard R. Dodd, Southworth Company, City of Reno, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 13, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vargas, Dillon and Bartlett, and Alex A. Garroway, of Reno, for Appellant.

Clel Georgetta, of Reno, for Niomia Geertson.

Woodburn, Forman, Wedge, Blakey & Thompson, Reno, for Coblentz, Dodd and Southworth Company.

Samuel B. Francovich, City of Reno. for City of Reno.


BADT, Chief Justice.

Respondent Niomia Geertson was injured from a fall when her shoe caught in the corner of a defective closed steel basement door on the sidewalk in front of the abutting premises known as 156 North Virginia Street in Reno. She sued the City of Reno, respondents Coblentz and Dodd, the owners of the property, respondent Southworth Company as the lessee and appellant Gensler-Lee of Reno, Inc., sublessee and occupant. The trial resulted in a jury verdict...

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