Ranftle v. City Athletic Club

— In an action to recover damages for personal injury sustained in a fall upon a stairway, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered March 11, 1963 after trial upon a jury’s verdict in the plaintiff’s favor. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Plaintiff, a deliveryman, was injured while descending a dark, exterior stairway leading from the sidewalk to the basement in a building owned by the defendant. The evidence, both oral and photographic, discloses that the third and fourth steps below the level of the sidewalk were “ radial ” in design; that they were…