Smolesky v. Kotler

This is an action to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff by reason of slipping on an accumulation of snow and ice on steps leading from the street to the first floor of a four-family tenement house owned by the defendant. The plaintiff occupied the second floor as a dwelling and the street floor as a barber shop. He had been a tenant for more than nineteen years, and was a tenant when the defendant purchased the house. The steps on which the plaintiff fell were of granite; they were used in common by the tenants and were exposed to the weather. The defendant, called by the…