Rohlfs v. Weil

While plaintiff Marguerite Rohlfs was descending a stairway which connects the surface of the street with the subway railroad station at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street in New York, one end of a scaffold which was insecurely suspended from the adjoining building above the highway gave way and a painter at work on the scaffold fell and his body struck and seriously injured plaintiff. No barricades or danger signals were posted on the sidewalk or elsewhere to warn pedestrians of the presence of this scaffold suspended over them.

The entire building was leased from the owner by appellant Gotham…