Bohn v. Beasley

The petition indicates that the plaintiff, after visiting a tenant in the upstairs apartment of premises owned by the defendant, for a purpose of her own, was proceeding to descend the stairway in a hall only dimly lighted by windows of insufficient size, and that in this darkened passageway she was misled by the unusual construction of the banister, extending in a straight line along- the upstairs door beyond the .place where the steps commenced to descend, which construction deceived her into believing that the floor continued to the point where the banister terminated, whereas the stairway…