Golden v. Katz

Katz Realty Company, Inc., is the owner of a two-story apartment dwelling in the city of New Orleans, bearing municipal number 520 Saratoga street. Prior to March 24, 1940, the upper apartment of the building was rented by the defendant, Ralph Katz, the president of the corporation, to a colored man named Marshall Lee Grant. The latter sub-leased a portion of the apartment to his son-in-law, Elliot Golden, plaintiff in this case. On March 24, 1940, the three year old infant child of Golden, while traversing the stairway leading from the apartment to the ground floor, fell down the stairs and…