Jacobs v. Danziger

Action by tenant of an apartment on top floor of defendant’s tenement house to recover damages for personal injuries.

Plaintiff testified that about half past seven in the morning she left her apartment to go downstairs, that she saw “ the janitor was washing the floors, the top floor, washing the stairs; that they were greasy and soapy; I got hold of the banister, walked down and slipped on my right foot and fell down to the next floor; ” that she slipped on the second stone step from the top floor; that as she fell she felt the steps with her hands and the steps were greasy; that she saw a…