More Livestock Shenanigans

Guthrie v. Powell, 290 P.2d 834 (Kan. 1955)

Mrs. Guthrie and her husband went to Winfield Sales Company, a place where livestock was being sold. She was sitting in a chair visiting with other ladies when a 600-pound steer fell onto her lap:

At about 1 p. m. of said day plaintiff was seated in a chair at the north end of the south main floor room engaged in visiting and conversing with women friends and acquaintances, most of whom were the wives of patrons attending said sale. Suddenly, there was a loud commotion and noise overhead and simultaneously bits of plaster and debris began to fall from the ceiling onto plaintiff and others standing or sitting near her which was followed instantaneously--as plaintiff later learned--by a six hundred pound steer falling through the ceiling immediately over and approximately twelve feet above her position, said beast falling and landing upon plaintiff as she sat in said chair, knocking her unconscious, flattening the chair and plaintiff to the floor and under said steer and causing painful, serious and permanent injuries to her as hereinafter set forth.

I am not sure how the cows got upstairs. Would the stairs actually hold up against a 600-pound steer? Can can cows even walk up stairs? They aren't all that delicate.