Creek v. Nonpareil Investment Co.

This action was brought by Lavinia Creek to recover damages for injuries said to have been caused by the negligence of defendants in failing to provide proper safeguards to a certain stairway leading from the first floor to the basement of a building, the second and third floors *551of which were occupied as a rooming house or hotel, where plaintiff was employed. At the close of her case the defendants moved a nonsuit, which was granted. That judgment is now here 'for review.

The essential facts are that plaintiff was employed as housekeeper at the hotel in question, which was operated by…