Reiss v. Reiss

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, judgment dismissing the complaint at the close of appellant’s case reversed on the law and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event. On the evidence adduced, the jury could have found that appellant was a business visitor to respondent’s premises, and that respondent was negligent in failing to give appellant, by lighting or otherwise, warning of a condition of peculiar danger existing on such premises. The question of appellant’s contributory negligence was likewise one of fact, for the jury to determine. Cases…