Samuels v. Terry Holding Co.

The sole question involved in these appeals is whether, upon the practically undisputed facts, there is any negligence shown on the part of the defendant.

The plaintiffs are husband and wife, and resided upon the fifth floor of an apartment house. The wife’s action is to recover damages for personal injuries, and her husband brings the companion action for loss of consortium and services. The janitor was engaged in washing down the stairs from the fifth to the fourth floor and some of the soapy, greasy water had trickled from this stairway down to the stairway leading from the fourth to the…