Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 28, 1943 (Sneckner v. Feingold)

Lummus, J.

This is an action of tort, brought by a mother living with a daughter who was the tenant of an apartment in an apartment house owned by the defendant, to recover for bodily injuries sustained on August 14, 1940, when the plaintiff fell because her heel caught in the brass edging or “nosing,” about an inch and a half wide, of the third step from the top of a common stairway provided for