Menard v. Cashman

The defendant’s motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict were properly denied. It appeared that the applied treads were installed by the defendant approximately four months before the accident. They were of flexible corrugated rubber composition, three thirty-seconds of an inch thick, affixed to the surface of the wooden stairs without glue or cement, by means of brass nails. Each tread was smaller than the stair, so that the stair extended eleven inches beyond the tread on either side, and approximately two and one-half inches behind the tread, between its rear edge and the riser. The…