Slater v. Barnes

Hiscock, Ch. J.

This action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the fall of plaster from the ceiling of a room included in an apartment rented by plaintiff of defendant in 1917.

Stripped of legal questions presented by the manner in which the case was. tried, the real claim of the plaintiff is that in 1913 some plaster fell from the ceiling of the same room then rented by her, that defendant caused the hole in the ceiling thus produced to be repaired by replastering and that the plaster which fell and caused plaintiff’s injuries was the same plaster which was thus…