Brown v. Mutual Life Insurance

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by respondent, who fell while descending a stairway in appellant’s business building, judgment, entered on the verdict of a jury in her favor, reversed on the law, with costs, and the complaint dismissed on the law, with costs. The stairs were constructed in 1903; and in the absence of a showing that they were constructed without the authorization of the city building department, that they are in violation of statute, ordinance, or regulation, or that any similar accident happened in the forty years of their existence, no case of…