Brandt v. Rakauskas

The plaintiff occupied as tenant the second floor of a two-family house owned by the defendant who himself lived on the first floor. The rear entrance to the second floor tenement was by way of a stairway from a rear verandah on the first floor to a rear verandah on the second floor. There were two wooden steps built into the rear verandah on the first floor at the foot of which there was a slab of concrete or cement about three feet by two and a half feet set upon the earth, which, together with the two steps, furnished the approach to the rear verandah used by the occupants of both floors…