Raper v. McCRORY-McLELLAN CORPORATION

Plaintiff’s evidence is as follows:

Defendant operates a variety store in the town of Wilson, North Carolina. Customers are invited to shop on the ground floor and on the basement floor. The two floors are connected by a stairway. Fifteen or twenty steps down this stairway from the ground floor there is a small landing, 'and there are two or three steps from the landing to the basement floor. There is ¡a double handrail down the center of the stairway and a handrail next to the wall on the left “as you go down.” The steps of the stairway were covered with rubber treads of nonskid type, “dark…