Elenkrieg v. . Siebrecht

The plaintiff was employed in 1916 as a seamstress in the workshop of a dressmaking establishment on the fourth .floor of the premises at No. 425 Fifth avenue, New York city. There were other workshops in this building, employing numerous other working people. About five-thirty o’clock on the fourth day of March, 1916, the plaintiff had occasion to go to the ladies’ washroom, which was on the third floor. To descend to this room there was a flight of stairs. Between the third and fourth floors these stairs were in two sections, one-half running in exactly the opposite direction to the other…