Tager v. Sullivan

These actions grow out of a claimed fall of the plaintiff Jennie Tager while leaving a tenement house owned by the defendant, to which she had gone to visit her son, a tenant. It was the claim of this plaintiff that she tripped and fell over the door sill of a small hall connected with the rear entrance. There was evidence that the sill was of concrete and projected above the floor of the hall about three-eighths of an inch, with rough, irregular and jagged edges; and the causes of action were based upon the negligence of the defendant in not maintaining his premises in a reasonably safe…