Webber v. Sherman

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained by slipping upon one of the steps of a stairway leading from the sidewalk to the entrance of a three story apartment house owned by the defendant. The plaintiff was on her way to visit by invitation lodgers in the apartment occupied by the defendant. The evidence tended to show that for a period considerably before the lodger came to live in the defendant’s apartment, whenever there was a rainfall or a thaw, water flowed from the piazza of the second story upon the steps and that there was an accumulation of ice…