Reeves v. Fourteenth Street Store
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Fourteenth Street Store, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court. ■ -
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The plaintiff slipped and fell on the tread of a stairway in the defendant’s drygoods store. Her husband was by her side. The only negligence charged by the complaint was that defendant permitted the stairway “ to become slippery and dangerous.” The day of the accident her husband wrote to the defendant that his wife slipped on a “wet spot” on the sfairs. She testifies that immediately after the accident she and her husband examined the spot and “it looked like as though some.one had spit up a lot of phlegm there and it had laid there the way it was for two or three days for it had…
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