Vinci v. O'Neill

The plaintiff, with her husband, occupied as tenant an apartment in a tenement house owned by the defendant, and the plaintiff brought this action to recover for personal injuries alleged to be due to the defendant’s negligence in failing to keep a portion of the premises in repair. There were six apartments in the building, two upon each of its three floors, and the plaintiff occupied one of those upon the third floor. Her apartment, as well as the other upon that floor, opened at the rear upon a veranda which ran entirely across the building and was con nected with a similar veranda by a…