Peil v. . Reinhart
New York Court of Appeals
order of the General Term of the City Court of Brooklyn, made April 22, 1889, which reversed a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff and granted a new trial. This was an action to recover damages for injuries received, by plaintiff through the alleged negligence of 'defendant. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion..
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The plaintiff as tenant of the defendant,, occupied some rooms in a tenament house of the latter, and had access to such rooms by means of a stairway common to the-occupants of the building. It appears by the evidence on her part that in descending the stairway in the evening of January 15,1888, the plaintiff fell and received the injuries complained, of; and that such fall was caused by the defective condition of the stair carpet; that the carpet had been in such condition for several months, and that the attention of the defendant-had in December previous been called to it by the…
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