Dixon v. Lobenstein

This is an action for damages brought by a lodging-room tenant for injuries alleged to have been received in a fall from a gallery on the premises in which she lodged, resulting from the giving way of a banister, or rail, which she alleges was decayed, rotten and defective. She sued Gertrude and Bessie Lobenstein, as the owners of the lodging house, Leonard Jones and E. W. Ogden as lessees holding under a ninety-nine year lease, Fidelity Bankers Trust Co., as the rental agents of the lessees, in charge of the property as such, and Mrs. J. Y. Wyrick as the renting occupant from whom the…