Iritano v. De Stefano

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff excepted to the entry of a verdict for the defendant under leave reserved, after the jury had returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiff, a girl of six, was hurt in the late afternoon of December 8, 1937, while entering, through a dark common entrance, a tenement house in which her mother had hired a tenement for twenty years. The defendant could be found to have been the landlord since 1934, at which time there was an electric light in the hallway of the house that would throw light through the glass panel of a door out upon the stóne steps in…