Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit December 1, 1909, No. 2,977 (Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Hartman)

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by Gertrude C. Hartman to recover damages from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for injuries sustained by a fall while walking over a hard wood floor covered by a rug in one of the rooms in which she was employed as a 'stenographer, in a large office building owned and controlled by the defendant.