Kaplowe v. Lipschitz

The controlling question herein presented is whether the plaintiff is entitled to recover damages from the defendants Arnold R. Lipschitz and/or Joseph Ginsberg, trustee, for injuries received on December 5, 1940, occasioned by a fall on the front steps of No. 497 Washington Avenue, New Haven, while plaintiff was descending the same after visiting her mother, who lived on the premises in question. The court is satisfied that the three lower steps of the four steps comprising the outside stairway leading from the porch of the house to the sidewalk were covered with a light coating of ice; that…