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

Mary T. Myers, Respondent, v. Amherst Construction Company, Appellant.
    
    
      
       Revd., 253 N. Y. 586,
    
   — -Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Lazansky, P. J., Young, Kapper and Carswell, JJ., concur; Hagarty, J., dissents, with the following memorandum: Plaintiff, according to her version of the occurrence, was ascending the well-lighted steps of defendant’s sample house, which steps had been recently varnished and the treads of which were wet and slippery, and when “ about half way ” up, according to her testimony, and “ up a few steps,” according to her friend and witness, Mrs. Kirby, she was warned by the defendant’s representative. I am of opinion that by continuing the use of the stairway, with full knowledge of its condition and of the danger, the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law, which bars recovery.