Inman v. Binghamton Housing Authority

Six years after an apartment house had been completed and turned over to the owner, this action was brought against the architects who designed the structure and the builder who constructed it, as well as the owner, to recover for injuries suffered by a child of a tenant when he fell off a stoop or porch. We are here concerned with the sufficiency of plaintiffs’ complaint and defendant owner’s third-party complaint against the builder and architects.

William Inman, an infant, lived with his parents in an apartment leased by them from the Binghamton Housing Authority. When he was two years old…