Brown Hotel v. Levitt

Opinion op the Court by

Jud,ge Latimer —

Reversing.

Appellant, Brown Hotel, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment for $1,000 in favor of appellee, Bertha Levitt.

On the morning of September 19, 1945, Mrs. Levitt and her husband, who were guests at the Brown Hotel, descended in the elevator to the lobby floor of the hotel, passed by the clerk’s desk for mail, and then proceeded to the street floor by the stairway leading from the lobby floor to the street floor. The stairway is constructed of marble and is 11 feet wide and consists of two portions with a landing dividing the upper and lower…