Walsh v. Schmidt

This is an action of tort, to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while standing upon a chair on the back piazza of a dwelling house, washing a window. One leg of the chair broke through the floor near the wall of the building, and the plaintiff fell. The defendant was the owner of the house which the plaintiff’s husband occupied as his tenant. The declaration is for negligence of the defendant in allowing the floor to become rotten and defective. The plaintiff and her husband and his family had lived in the house about five months at the time of the accident. The question…