There was no proof of structural defect with respect to the top step of the stairway in question. The sidewalk not being level, of necessity the first step must have had a differential in level in relation to the graded sidewalk. At one end the step was one and one-eighth inches above the sidewalk. At the middle it was two and one-sixteenth inches, and at the other extreme it was three and one-sixteenth...
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