Lundgren v. Gimbel Bros.

The following opinion was filed November 9, 1926:

Eschweiler, J.

No evidence was offered or contention made,'that the stairway in question was dangerous on account'of. being ¡unlighted or of. improper construction. Be*523cause there was no evidence showing that through any carelessness of any of defendant’s employees the slippery substance was spilled on the step and no evidence that it had been there, prior to plaintiff’s fall, any such appreciable length of timé that the defendant, in the exercise of ordinary care in the supervision of such matters, should have known of its existence and thereby…