Reilly v. Board of Education

If there was any negligence on the part of the defendant, it was in constructing and maintaining the stairway so that there was no overlapping of the steps. Mrs. Reilly, one of the witnesses, testified they were even, that is, the front of the upper step was even or directly over the rear of the tread directly below, and it is claimed that on account of this there was greater chance of one’s heel being caught in descending the stairs than there would have been had the upper tread overlapped the tread directly below. There is not a particle of evidence that this method of construction was…