Moore v. Crestwood Manor, Inc.

In an action to recover damages for personal injury, defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered on a jury verdict. The accident occurred when plaintiff, the mother of the secretary of defendant, which conducted a convalescent home, fell while descending a short, unlighted stairway, not provided with a handrail, leading from a landing at the foot of another stairway to a foyer on the first floor of the building. There was evidence from which the jury might have determined that plaintiff was an invitee, or that she was a social guest, and that it was customary to maintain…