Randazzo v. Polizzi

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Action for $25,000 damages for personal injuries. Jury verdict for defendant. Plaintiff appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Plaintiff claimed his jaw was broken as the result of a fall on' an unsafe common stairway on defendant’s premises. Plaintiff and his family, tenants in defendant’s building, had lived there for 17 or 18 years. Plaintiff testified that he started to work on the night shift, and while descending a 30-inch-wide outside wooden stairway at 11 o’clock on an evening in early October, 1958 he stepped on a loose wooden tread, which moved or “flipped” and…