Allison v. Wm. Doerflinger Co.

Plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her in falling while walking down a stairway leading from the first floor to the basement floor in defendant’s department store. Seventeen steps, seven feet wide, extended downward to the northerly side of a platform, which was about seven feet square. From all sides of the platform, excepting the northerly side, there were stairways, with four risers, descending to .the basement floor. Along each side of the upper series of seventeen steps there was a hand-rail, which ended with that series at a newel post at the platform,…