Slaughter v. Levy

Defendants below bring this appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff for $750 in an action sounding in tort.

Plaintiff’s husband was a tenant in an apartment house of Leopold H. Levy (now deceased). By agreement made before the execution of the lease Levy agreed to permit plaintiff’s husband to make use of a large storage compartment in the basement of the apartment house and in accordance with said agreement, from 1912 until the fall of 1918 plaintiff’s husband stored therein various goods and chattels belonging to himself and his wife. At that time, however, there was fear of a…