Ward v. Broadway Marlboro Realty Co.

One of these defendants as the owner of the building had made a contract with its codefendant to rubberize the flooring of the eighteenth floor. On the day of the accident workmen were removing the paint from the concrete floor right in front of one of the elevator doors opening onto the floor. There was a patch of flooring about four feet wide and two feet in depth which was covered with a liquid used by the workmen and which made the floor very slippery. Plaintiff, who was employed by one of the tenants on the twelfth floor, entered an elevator on that floor for the purpose of visiting her…