Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the complaint is reinstated, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.
The plaintiff and his companion lived in an apartment in a house owned by the defendants in Peekskill. To gain access to the apartment, the plaintiff had "to go up a driveway going through the backyard and go up a flight of steps [on the] back deck." This stairway had three steps and no railing. On April 17, 2000, the plaintiff...
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