Risby v. Sharp-Boylston Company

Ursilla Risby brought her action in tort against Mrs. Lola W. Clement and Sharp-Boylston Company jointly, for recovery because of personal injuries received by her as an alleged invitee on the premises of the former, resulting from the joint and concurrent negligence of the defendants in maintaining certain front porch steps in a dangerously rotten and dilapidated condition, with the stringers rotten and one step missing; and in failing, after having received notice of this condition, timely and properly to repair the steps; and in failing to provide such a front porch light as would indicate…