O'Driscoll v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is a non-jury case. In brief, the facts are as follows: The plaintiff, an infant of about seven years, resided with her parents at 21-48 Thirty-fifth street, Long Island City. This newly-developed apartment house is owned by the defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. To make ingress and egress to the house, you pass over the public street through an *373archway which leads you to a courtyard, the center of which is decorated with a grass plot and shrubs. Similarly so, the front of the buildings is grass plotted and shrubbed. Separating the, grass plot and the shrubbery from the…