Rigney v. Horn & Hardart Co.

This action arose out of an accident that took place on November 19, 1935, at about five f. m., while plaintiff was descending a stairway leading to a basement restaurant of the defendant company. The plaintiff testified that as she was about to start down this stairway, which was about eight or nine feet wide and separated in the middle by a handrail supported by uprights at intervals of every three or four steps, she noticed a man in a white *586uniform bending over and using a rag in the act of washing the steps on the right-hand side of the stairway. She then turned to the left-hand side and…