Barre v. Epstein

The plaintiff in the first action, who was a tenant of the defendant in an apartment house, was injured while using a common passageway therein. Her husband brought the second action to recover consequential damages. The cases were tried before a judge of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. He found for the plaintiff in each case. The cases were argued before us on exceptions to the denial of the defendant’s requests for rulings, to the effect the findings should be for him because the evidence did not warrant the conclusion that the defendant was negligent, or that the passageway was…