Sarapin v. S. & S. Corrugated Paper Machinery Co.

Young, J.:

The infant plaintiff, a boy of seven years, in September, 1921, was living with his parents in an apartment of a tenement house at 171 North Third street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Nos. 171 and 173 were frame buildings, and each had apartments for five families. There was a yard in the rear of said apartment houses, used in common by the tenants for certain purposes. The children of the tenants, including the infant plaintiff, played by right in this common yard. Directly back of this tenement house yard and fronting on North Fourth street was a factory owned and operated by the defendant…