253 N.Y. 300
171 N.E 63
Decided March 18, 1930
New York Court of Appeals · decided 1930-03-18
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
““A small pool of water in a slight depression, caused by wear, on the surface of an outdoor step, creates no dangerous condition, and reasonable care did not require the defendant to prevent or remedy such condition,””
quoted by 1 later decision, including Shumaker v. Charada Investment Co.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1930-03-18
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1974
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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¶1 A small pool of water in a slight depression, caused by wear, on the surface of an outdoor step creates no dangerous condition, and reasonable care did not require the defendant to prevent or remedy such condition.
¶2 The judgment of the Appellate Division and that of the Trial Term should be reversed and the complaint dismissed, with costs in all courts.
¶3 Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Lehman, Kellogg, O’Brien and Hubbs, JJ., concur.
¶4 Judgments reversed, etc.