City of New York Municipal Court November 26, 1894 (Butcher v. Hyde)

CLEMENT, C. J.

It was the duty of the defendants to exercise reasonable care over the stairs which were in use at their theater. They were bound to exercise more care than the owner of a tenement house in the control of stairs in common use by tenants, and more care even than the officers of an elevated railroad over the stairs-in use at their stations.