Case Name: JEAN SINTON AND WILLIAM SINTON, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. HUDSON AND MANHATTAN RAILROAD COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEPENDANT-APPELLANT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1944-03-29
Citations: 131 N.J.L. 331
Docket Number: 
Parties: JEAN SINTON AND WILLIAM SINTON, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. HUDSON AND MANHATTAN RAILROAD COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEPENDANT-APPELLANT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 131
Pages: 331–332

Head Matter:
JEAN SINTON AND WILLIAM SINTON, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. HUDSON AND MANHATTAN RAILROAD COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEPENDANT-APPELLANT.
Argued January 18, 1944
Decided March 29, 1944.
Before Brogan, Chief Justice, and Justices Bobine and Come.
For the appellant, Collins & Corbin (Edward A. Markley and James B. Emory, of counsel).
For the respondents, M. Lester Lynch.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of Jean Sin-ton and her husband awarded them for the physical injuries to her and consequential damages to him resulting from a fall which she sustained on the stairway in the defendant's station at Ninth Street in New York City. The evidence was that she slipped on the inside of a banana which was on the step. There was no evidence that the presence of the banana had been, in fact, brought to defendant's previous notice or that its presence on the step had existed for such space of time before the occurrence as would have afforded the defend ant sufficient opportunity to make proper inspection of the stairway and remove it. In the absence of such proof, it was error to submit the case to the jury. Schnatterer v. Bamberger, 81 N. J. L. 558.
The judgment is reversed, with costs.