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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Etta Bressler, Appellant, v. Rule Realty Co., Inc., Respondent.
    
      Negligence — buildings — ice and snow — resident of apartment building injured by slipping on ice-covered front steps — when landlord not negligent in failing to remove ice and snow — contributory negligence.
    
    
      Bressler v. Buie Realty Co., Inc., 219 App. Div. 529, affirmed.
    (Submitted June 6, 1928;
    decided June 21, 1928.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered April 4, 1927, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff, a resident in a building owned by defendant, slipped upon ice which had accumulated upon the entrance steps to the building and falling received the injuries complained of. The accident occurred while rain was falling with freezing temperature. The Appellate Division held that defendant was not negligent, under the circumstances, in failing to remove or throw ashes or sawdust on the ice but that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence in failing to safeguard herself against the obvious slippery condition of the steps.
    
      Abraham, Brekstone for appellant.
    
      Frederick Mellor for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.