Pastrick v. S. S. Kresge Co.

These actions, one by a woman for bodily injuries, and the other by her husband for consequential *195damages, arise out of a fall sustained by the former while walking down a stairway in a retail store of the defendant. Hearing the cases without jury, the judge found for the defendant. The plaintiffs alleged exceptions.

Each step was equipped with the so called Mason safety tread, a metal strip three inches wide. This strip was composed of alternate trenches and grooves running across the tread of the step, near to and parallel with the edge, the trenches being one half inch wide and filled with…