Erlicht v. Boser

Upon the argument of this appeal, appellant contended that the stairway where the accident happened failed to comply with section 21 of the Tenement House Law. In his brief he quoted said statute as it read after the amendment incorporated, by chapter 454 of the Laws of 1912, although the house in question was erected in 1908, and, therefore, the proper statute applicable to the stairway involved was section 17 of the former Tenement House Law as it was last amended by chapter 179 of the Laws of 1903. The earlier statute did not contain any provision for a minimum -width of four inches at the…