Marshall

Plaintiff Florence Marshall commenced an action against United Airlines (hereafter United), San Francisco-Oakland Airlines (hereafter SFO Airlines), and the City and County of San Francisco (hereafter the City) for damages for personal injuries. Summary judgment was entered against her in favor of United. Her appeal is from that judgment.

In the summary judgment proceedings, plaintiff’s declaration established the following. For the sum of $239.40, she purchased a ticket from United for air passage from Berkeley, California, to New York and return. It was provided that on the return trip she would travel on an airplane of United to the City’s airport in San Mateo County where she was to take an SFO Airlines helicopter to Berkeley. On her return trip she departed from United’s airplane on the landing field and entered the City’s airport build ing. She then walked along corridors toward the SFO Airlines’ facility a considerable distance away. She came to a point where an escalator was not working so she started down the stairs. “[S]he had made two or three steps down when [her] left shoe caught on the metal tread edging of the step causing [her] to fall down the stairs…