Carrington v. Bobb

The plaintiff was a tenant in a three-family tenement house owned by the defendant. The front entrance to the house was by way of concrete steps leading to a concrete platform, thence across the platform and up wooden steps to the front verandah from which a door led to an interior hallway and a stairway leading to the separate apartments. The concrete steps, platform and wooden steps were under the exclusive control of the defendant. About eight o’clock at night the plaintiff, while stepping from the bottom wooden step to the concrete platform, fell down the concrete steps. She claimed that…