Farley v. Portland Gas & Coke Co‪.‬

BRAND, Justice. In her complaint the plaintiff alleges that she went to the office and showroom of the defendant, a corporation, in Portland, Oregon, to pay her gas bill, and after so doing, she proceeded toward an exhibit of new equipment just to the west of the Salmon Street entrance to said building, when she tripped over and fell upon a low platform upon which said equipment was resting. She alleges that the defendant was negligent in placing a low platform on the floor, thereby causing a hazardous condition to exist, and in failing to warn the plaintiff of said hazardous condition and in failing to place a barrier around said platform. She alleges that as a proximate result of the defendants negligence, she was hurled to the floor and thereby caused to sustain serious injury, the nature of which is set forth in the complaint. She then asks for damages. To this complaint the defendant filed an answer, which is in substance a general denial of all allegations of negligence, but the defendant admits that the plaintiff fell partly upon and over a low platform in said showroom upon which an exhibit of equipment was resting. * * * Defendant also admits that the plaintiff suffered a fractured wrist and was hospitalized.