Kenney v. Rhinelander
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Laura Y. Rhinelander, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of October, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of November, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes and upon exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The plaintiff, a tenant of rooms in a building belonging to the defendant, sued to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in falling on a stairway, such fall happening, as claimed, in consequence of the negligence of the defendant in permitting, after notice, a torn and unsafe carpet to remain on the stairway. • The building was a tenement house occupied by many tenants, and the stairway was for the general use of the tenants and was altogether under the control of the defendant or her agents. On the trial of the cause the plaintiff obtained a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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