Hastreiter and Husband v. Karau Buildings

Action for personal injuries. This is an appeal from the construction of an indemnification clause in a lease. The respondent landlord is the defendant and third-party plaintiff. Appellant tenant is the third-party defendant. The order appealed from construed the indemnification clause in the lease as requiring the tenant to hold the landlord harmless from an action by one of the tenant's employees against the landlord for injuries sustained as a result of a fall down stairs of the leased premises which did not have handrails.