Gillvon v. Reilly

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The defendant’s testator was the owner of a four-story building in Jersey City, divided into eight tenements, which he let to as many families, all of whom had right of passage to and from their respective tenements by means of the common halls and stairways. The plaintiffs were tenants of four rooms on the second floor. The evidence shows that the plaintiff Alice, while going down the flight of stairs leading from her apartments to the street, caught the heel of her boot in the oil cloth on the stairs and fell, sustaining the injury for which…