Mayer v. Cramer

This is an action brought against the defendants as owners of a tenement house, for damages resulting from their alleged negligence. An accident occurred when the infant plaintiff descended the stairs in defendants’ house and stepped on a rug at the bottom. The rug slipped from under him, causing him to fall back against the treads and he suffered a transverse fracture of the left forearm. At the end of the case the court said: “ There is no evidence in the case indicating that either the stairs or the rug itself were defective. The contention here is that the defendant maintained the hallway…