Leona Harris v. H. G. Smithy Co., Inc.

BAZELON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing an action for personal injuries. Appellant is a tenant in an apartment building owned and managed by appellees. She was injured by slipping and falling on the terrazzo floor of the apartment house lobby on a rainy day. The trial court, sitting without a jury, concluded that the landlord had neither actual nor constructive notice of the wet and slippery condition of the floor, and hence had no duty to take corrective action. Because that conclusion rests on an erroneous interpretation of the controlling principle of law, we…