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Dora Lepolstadt, Respondent, v. Childs Company, Appellant.
    (Argued January 26, 1925;
    decided February 25, 1925.)
    
      Negligence■ — ■failure to keep entrance to building free from ice and snow— action to recover for injury from slipping on step.
    
    
      Lepolstadt v. Childs Co., 210 App. Div. 842, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered October 21, 1924, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. The complaint alleged that on February 9, 1921, the plaintiff was an employee of a tenant in the building 403 Sixth avenue, which was in the possession and control' of defendant under a lease. At about eight o’clock in the morning on that day, while stepping up on the entrance to the hallway of the building, she was caused to fall and fracture her right leg, by reason of slipping on an accumulation of ice and hard snow, which had been allowed to remain on the step for at least a week or ten days prior to the accident.
    
      Walter L. Glenney and Bertrand L. Pettigrew for appellant.
    
      George F. Hickey for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: McLaughlin, J.