Aldrich v. Laul
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary Aldrich, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 28th day of March, 1907, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Queens County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The action is to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in falling over a bicycle in descending stairs from upper to lower rooms in a public hallway in an apartment house owned by defendant, in which plaintiff’s husband was a tenant, and is predicated upon the failure of defendant to comply with the requirements of section 82 of the Tenement House Act (Laws of 1901, chap. 334), which provides:
*428“ Public Halls.— In every tenement house a proper light shall be kept burning by the owner in the public hallways, near the stairs, upon the entrance…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gorman v. WhiteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
- Pells v. StockwellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917