On April 5, 1958, plaintiff, a tenant in a rooming house for two prior years, was about to descend a flight of stairs leading down from the first floor of the premises to the basement, in order to use the common kitchen there located. The stairway was familiar to plaintiff from prior use. She flicked a switch which turned on a basement light that illuminated the bottom steps but left the top two steps of the stairway in a shadow of darkness. The top step was level with the...
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