Strassman v. State

Claimant sues to recover for personal injuries, medical expenses, loss of earnings, and a small item of property damage sustained, she alleges, when she fell upon a freshly waxed and dangerously slippery floor in an unilluminated hall of a State armory located in the borough of Manhattan. Claimant alleges that on October 13, 1955, the day she fell, she was lawfully on the premises in the performance of her *724duties as an election inspector. She charges the State with negligence in the maintenance of the armory and in failure to give notice of the dangerous condition. For the purposes of this…