Ingalls v. Isensee

The defendant, William Isensee, has appealed from a judgment against him and in favor of the plaintiff, Clara Ingalls, for damages for personal injuries sustained by her when she slipped and fell on the exterior stairway at the front entrance of the defendant’s apartment house in the city of Portland.

The stairway was about ten feet wide and was set between outer walls of the building. It consisted of thirteen steps and extended from the sidewalk to the first-story entrance. The upper part of the building projected over the stairway, leaving an opening ten or twelve feet high above the bottom…