Rothman v. Solon

The plaintiff fell on the steps leading to the porch of a three-family house. For two years she had lived as a tenant on the first floor. The complaint is in two counts. The first count alleges a neglect to provide a liglht under the tenement house act. General Statutes §2566. Carrington vs. Bobb, 121 Conn. 258, 261, discusses the application of this provision to a three-family house and says, among other things, “It is even more apparent that such provisions are not applicable to the steps furnishing an approach to a tenement house which are entirely outside tlhe house itself.” It follows…