Favret v. Ourso

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of his personal injury suit against a subcontractor whose uncompleted installation of circular, iron stairs was the occasion of plaintiff’s fall and injury.

Plaintiff was working at installing bathroom vanities in a building being remodeled into two-story apartments. Inside each apartment circular iron stairs to connect the two floors were being constructed; outside the apartments, a completed wooden stairway provided access to the second floors.

Plaintiff and his partner had used the outside stairway to get to the second floor and to take the…