Aprile v. Colonial Trust Co.

The defendant was the owner in possession of a three-story tenement house in Waterbury in which there were six apartments — two on each floor. A verandah covered the entire north side of the building and the roof of the building was extended about ten feet to cover it. In the center of this verandah a stairway extended from the ground upward to each floor in succession, and a doorway opened through a partition onto the verandah which was intended for each apartment.

John Rubina was the lessee of the second-floor apartment on the west side of the building, which included five rooms, an inner…