Sheehan v. Sette

The defendants owned a three-family house situated on a high embankment and reached by walking up nine cement steps from the public sidewalk to a platform from which five or six wooden steps lead to the front entrance. The plaintiff, a tenant in one of the apartments, started up the steps at about 11.30 o’clock on the morning of February 8, 1941, slipped on the second or third concrete step, which was covered with a sheet of ice, fell and was injured. A verdict was rendered for her, the court refused to set it aside and the defendants appealed, claiming only that the defect had not existed…