Stern v. Swartz

The defendant Ida Swartz took title in 1913 to a wooden apartment house of three floors and six apartments. The front door, reached through a portico, was in the center of the street front. Over the portico a slightly sloping tin roof, eight or ten feet wide, projected from the house toward the street at the level of the floor *437above the street. Two windows of that floor, about two feet above the tin roof, looked out upon it, but there was no door leading to it and it was not intended or adapted for use as a veranda. Along the edge of the tin roof, just inside a gutter, was an ornamental…