O'Brien v. Christensen

The plaintiffs, Patrick J. O’Brien, Sr., and Walter J. Rhilinger, were injured when a railing on a third-floor porch of a building gave way, and the two men fell more than twenty-five feet onto a neighbor’s porch. Both men were tenants in condominium units in the building. O’Brien and Rhilinger brought separate personal injury actions in the Superior Court seeking damages from the defendants, Jon E. Christensen, as trustee of the City Point IV Condominium Trust (Christensen), Paul D. Bausemer, the carpenter who repaired the porch in 1986, and Michael G. Bausemer, Paul’s brother, who had…