Rudger v. Mucklon Holding Co.

Plaintiff occupied an apartment on the third floor of an apartment house owned by the defendant. While descending the stairs leading from her apartment she slipped on some paint which had been spilled on the stairway by one Stelzer, an employee of a painter, MacPherson, who regularly did all the painting work in the house. •

It is admitted that the paint was spilled by Stelzer and that the plaintiff fell and sustained certain injuries. The substantial question presented for determination by this appeal is the responsibility of the defendant for the negligence of Stelzer in leaving the paint on…