Settles v. Strobridge Lithographing Co.

These appeals on questions of law from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendant are, in consolidated cases of a wife and husband, presented to this court upon a single record.

The plaintiff wife was injured in a fall at the fifth step from the bottom of a stairway leading from the ground floor to the basement of a building, of which defendant was the owner-lessor out of possession and control, and seeks to impose liability in damages upon the defendant for failure to provide and maintain a handrail, as required by Section 1006, General Code, and related Section 1007, General Code.…