Fenno v. Roberts

The plaintiff, one of several tenants in an apartment building in Boston owned by the defendant, brought this action of tort to recover for personal injuries sustained in the early evening of January 5, 1948, when the plaintiff fell on an unlighted common stairway leading from the street to his second floor apartment, above a store, and then to the floor above. The plaintiff had a verdict. The defendant excepted, among other things, to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict in his favor.

The plaintiff became a tenant at will on April 1, 1947, when the owner and landlord was Columbia…