Heinberg v. Sikora Realty Corp.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment dismissing the complaint upon the merits after a trial by a judge in the Municipal Court of the City of New York, borough of the Bronx/ second district, without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtBijur, J.
Plaintiff sued for injuries received while a tenant in defendant’s tenement house. On the 1st of February, 1919, after sunset, she endeavored to leave her apartment and found the hallway of her floor and the stairway leading therefrom in total darkness. She approached the stairway carefully, and in reaching for the balustrade missed her step and fell down the stairway causing injuries for which she sues. The respondent endeavors to sustain the judgment upon the theory that, conceding defendant’s liability for violation of section 76 of the Tenement House Law requiring the hallway and stairs…
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