Boston Beer Packing Co. v. Stevens

Wallace, C. <T.

The defendants are sued personally, and also in tbeir representative capacity as executors and trustees, under the will of Calvin Stevens, deceased, for damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by the fall of a building owned by the defend-, ants as such executors and trustees, and which had been leased by them for a storage warehouse. The jury found for the plaintiff, and under the instructions of the court their verdict established two propositions : First, that the building was unfit and unsafe for use as a storage warehouse at the time the defendants let it…