Davidoff v. Cohen

Plaintiff, a tenant in defendant’s tenement house, was coming down the front steps of the house to the sidewalk on a morning- in May when she slipped and fell. She testified: “I missed my step and there was no railing to grab hold of * * * *405I wanted to grab hold of something. There was nothing there and I fell down.”

There was no banister or railing to or on the steps although the Tenement House Law, section 35, provides that “ in every tenement house all stairways shall be provided with proper banisters and railings and kept in good repair.”

The photograph of the stairway in evidence shows that…