Hall v. Smathers

Smith, J.:

The defendants were the owners of an apartment house in the city of New York. The plaintiff rented rooms upon the third *600floor of the apartment house with a right to a portion of the basement for storage purposes. Prior to the time of this rental the lower story had been occupied as a restaurant and a good many rats annoyed the restaurant proprietor who got twenty-eight cats. When the restaurant went out of the place apparently the rats disappeared, but the cats were still there and the defendants made no provision for their feeding. The plaintiff, a kind-hearted woman, made…