Porter v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.

This appeal is from a judgment for damages resulting from injuries sustained when plaintiff fell on a stairway in defendant’s department store. The stairway led downward in a westerly direction from the mezzanine to the first floor, and all of the steps, except the two at the bottom, adjoined a wall on the north side. There was a drinking fountain a few inches north of the second step from the bottom. At the time of her fall, plaintiff, who was carrying nothing except a small purse under her left arm, was descending the stairs with her 3-year-old son. She was holding the boy’s left hand,…