Ward v. Horn & Hardart Baking Co.

Opinion by

Hirt, J:,

Defendant conducts a public restaurant in the basement of a building at Eleventh and Market Streets in Philadelphia. The entrance to the restaurant is on Market Street and is six weet wide at the building line. Double doors at the entrance open inward and generally were kept open in all kinds of weather during business hours. When open, the doors were fastened back against the walls of the entryway. The composition floor covering this entryway extends at the sidewalk level into the building from the threshhold, for a distance of 47 inches, to the top step of a stairway. The…