Hodge v. Niagara Falls Gazette Publishing Co.

Memorandum: The respondents specify three items which it is claimed would delude a reasonably careful person into thinking that the last step of the stairway was the floor level, to wit: (1) width of the last step; (2) similarity in appearance of the last step and the floor; (3) handrail not extended to the floor. The width of the step may be disregarded because Mrs. Hodge does not attribute her fall to that. There is no causal connection with the handrail and the accident. Her husband was between her and the rail, and, in any event, she chose to depend on her husband’s arm, rather than the…