Ryan v. New York Rapid Transit Corp.

Appeal by defendant in a personal injury action from a judgment for plaintiff, entered on a verdict. Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs. Plaintiff was injured by falling to the concrete floor as she emerged from a closet in a washroom maintained by defendant in one of its elevated railroad stations. The floor level of the closet was seven inches above that of the room, and both floors were of the same color. A step down was located four inches outside the swinging doors of the closet, and the bottom of the doors was fourteen inches above the floor of the closet. Plaintiff, as well as…