Dickey v. Hochschild, Kohn & Co.

The appellee in this case conducts a large department store at the northwest corner of Howard and Lexington Streets in Baltimore City. Between the third and fourth floors of the building its occupies there is a mezzanine or balcony floor, connected with the third floor by a flight of stairs consisting of about twelve steps. The risers of these steps are of a convenient height, and the treads are about six feet long by about twelve or fourteen inches in width, and on the left of the stairway going down there is a “banister rail.” Along the surface of the treads there are placed lengthwise, and…