Marcher v. Butler

HENRY F. McQUADE, Justice,

pro tern.

This is a slip and fall case. The plaintiff, Sally Marcher, was employed as a cleaning *868lady for Victoria Golden, the lessee of a two-story condominium owned by the defendant, Eloise Butler. The upstairs and downstairs of the condominium are connected by a stairway that has two ninety degree turns in it — one turn is at the top, the other at the bottom. At the ninety degree turns, the stairs fan out so that they are narrow on one side of the stairway and wide on the other. On January 15, 1984, Marcher was cleaning the condominium for the first time, and as…