Manuta v. Lazarus

The plaintiff sued to recover damages for having fallen down the stairs of a tenement house. His right to recover was dependent upon whether the doors opening into the hall adjacent to the stairway contained glass panels in accordance with a provision of the Tenement House Law. Evidence was adduced on behalf of the plaintiff that the doors did not contain such panels, and evidence was adduced on behalf of the defendant that they did. There was also evidence to the effect that the structural conditions of the doors were the same on the day of the trial as on the day when the plaintiff met with…