Kerstein v. Goodman

Plaintiff has recovered a judgment for personal injuries sustained in falling down the stairs in defendant’s tenement house. She testified that the stairway leading from the first floor to the ground floor was marble stone, that it looked like marble; that she walked down the stairs on her way to business and slipped and fell down; that there was a pail of water on the stairs; that she tried to hold on to the banister but the pail was in the way and she slipped on the step the pail was on and fell down the balance of the stairs; that the stairs were “ wet and very slippery, like soap suds…