Butler v. State

Appeal from a judgment entered upon a decision rendered after trial in the Court of Claims. Claimant, Bessie Butler, was injured on the early morning of April 23, 1961 while attending a social function held in the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. It appears that new flooring laid upon the pre-existing stone surface sometime prior to April, 1957 extended to the entrance of a stairway at the fifth floor of the building and that at the point where its top step and the floor joined there had been placed a strip of wood whose beveled nosing or edge projected above the stairway step about one…