Aubry v. Ashland Realty Co.

Defendant owns a sixteen-family tenement house on the southwest corner of Elmwood avenue and Tracy street, Buffalo, N. Y. In February, 1937, it leased to Joseph J. Aubry, Jr., a five-room apartment on the third floor, the living room of which faced Elmwood avenue. In this room there are three windows of the usual type. When Mr. Aubry took possession in February, 1937, the lower section of the middle window was covered with a copper wire screen attached to a wooden frame. The screen was held in position by two metal plungers which projected into holes in the window casings, twenty inches above…