Bordonaro v. Bank of Blasdell

The defendant bank conducts its business in a building owned by it in the village of Blasdell, N. Y. The concrete public sidewalk in front thereof is ten feet nine inches in width. Between the sidewalk and the bank building is a concrete step or ledge five feet in depth, about thirty-nine feet in length extending across the entire front of the building, and eight inches high at the street line and nine inches high at the building wall.

At about eleven-thirty o’clock on Saturday morning, December 11, 1937, the plaintiff, intending to enter the bank, had just stepped from the public sidewalk…