Hirschler v. Briarcliff Management Corp.

Plaintiff sustained personal injuries while descending an outside stairway in an apartment house to empty her garbage after dark. At the time of the accident on January 20,1946, and for a long time previously, this stairway was used by tenants and the building superintendent himself for disposal of their own garbage. Use of an inside elevator had been forbidden for that purpose. There was no defect in the stairway, and the only question which the trial court submitted to the jury concerning negligence of the defendant was lack of illumina*423tion of the stairs by artificial light. Since it was an…