Schnatterer v. Bamberger

*559The opinion oí the court was delivered by

Vredenburgh, J.

Between the hours o£ eight and nine o’clock of Saturday night, April 24th, 1909, the plaintiff, while shopping with a lady companion in the defendant’s large department store in Newark, New Jersey, and proceeding down the stair or passage way leading from the first floor to the basement, stepped upon the third step from' the top of the stair, tripped and fell down the stairway, sustaining the injury for which she has brought suit.

The plaintiff claims her fall was caused by a loosened brass edging or nosing originally fastened by screws…