Morris v. Lodgen

Exceptions overruled. This is an action of tort for injuries sustained by the plaintiff when he slipped and fell on the front stairs of a building owned by the defendant. At the time of the injury the plaintiff was making a social call upon his daughter, a tenant in the building. The plaintiff excepted to the entry of a verdict for the defendant under leave reserved. On direct examination the tenant testified that the stairs appeared to be “okay” in May, 1957, the beginning of her tenancy; that she first noticed a change in the condition of the stairs in November of 1957 “in that they were…