Martin v. Rich

The plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries sustained by her while descending a flight of stairs in an apartment building owned and controlled by the defendants. The front entrance of the building is used in common by all the tenants, and the steps in the vestibule were used by different tenants. The plaintiff occupied an apartment on the third floor. She testified that on the morning of the accident at about a quarter of ten she came down the steps, and as she opened the inside vestibule door she stepped on something and fell down the steps; that she looked at the top step, and on…