J. M. Robinson, Norton & Co. v. Legrande

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing

Eeversing.

Josie Legrande had been, for about two years prior to September 9, 1910, in the employ of J. M. Robinson, Norton & Company. She operated for said company a power machine, situated on the third floor of their factory building in Louisville. The steps, leading up to this floor, were steep. They were three feet wide; a solid wall was on either side; and there was no hand rail. There was a cleat, or small wooden block, nailed on the side of each of the four steps next to the third floor, on the left hand side going up. No one of these *189cleats extended…