158 N.Y.S. 717 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1916
This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries. On the 2d of June, 1915, the plaintiff, a tenant in the tenement house of the defendant, attempted to descend a flight of stairs therein, and fell down 16 steps, in consequence of which she sustained certain severe injuries. At the time of the accident she held an infant in her right arm, had her left hand on the banister, and was proceeding from the third to the second floor. Although it was in the evening, there was no light burning in the hallway, in violation of section 76 of the Tenement House Law.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with $30 costs in one action to appellant to abide the event. All concur.