Barthelmess v. Bergamo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

While in the act of manipulating a clothes line, upon the roof of an annex to the main building, the second floor of which she occupied as a tenant, the plaintiff presumably from the superimposed weight of the clothes upon the line, or for some other reason not distinctly in evidence, was drawn or fell from the roof, and received the resulting injuries, for which the jurjr compensated her by a verdict in her favor. From the judgment entered thereon this appeal was taken by the defendant, upon the fundamental contention that no liability upon…