Gula v. Gawel

Aniela Gula, the plaintiff, appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant, Janina Gawel.

The plaintiff resided with her husband, as month-to-month tenants under an oral lease, on the second floor of a two-story, two-apartment building owned by the defendant. In her second amended complaint, the plaintiff alleged that while descending the front stairway from her apartment she tripped and fell and was injured. The landlord was charged with negligence in failing to maintain the stairway, which was alleged to be under her control, and in failing to repair it and illuminate it.…