[Download] "Rose Menard v. Margaret E. Cashman" by Supreme Court of New Hampshire ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rose Menard v. Margaret E. Cashman
- Author : Supreme Court of New Hampshire
- Release Date : January 07, 1947
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The defendant's motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict were properly denied. It appeared that the applied treads were installed by the defendant approximately four months before the accident. They were of flexible corrugated rubber composition, three thirty-seconds of an inch thick, affixed to the surface of the wooden stairs without glue or cement, by means of brass nails. Each tread was smaller than the stair, so that the stair extended eleven inches beyond the tread on either side, and approximately two and one-half inches behind the tread, between its rear edge and the riser. The brass nails which held the back of the particular tread claimed to have caused the accident were five in number, the outside nails being approximately an inch from the outer edges of the tread, and the intermediate nails being spaced at intervals of eight, ten and one-eighth, and eight inches respectively. There was evidence that standard practice required that stair treads in semi-public buildings, such as the defendant's, cover the entire stair, so as to present a uniformly even surface. It could be found that those used by the defendant were unsuitable, both in failing to comply with this standard, and because the method of attachment was insufficient to eliminate the danger of bulging, inherent in their flexible and expansive character.