Hirschman v. Hirschman

Defendant appeals, in a personal injury negligence action, from a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiffs after a jury trial in the Municipal Court. The judgment was unanimously affirmed, without opinion, in the Appellate Term, and this court granted leave to appeal.

Plaintiff wife sustained relatively minor injuries in a fall from an exterior stairway of a private dwelling located in the city of Yonkers, New York. She and her husband were visiting the husband’s brother, defendant in this case, whose home the private house was. The stairway consisted of two flights of six and eight steps,…