Delaney v. Shimelman

The plaintiff was one of six tenants of part of an apartment house on Center Street in Hartford owned by the defendants, her tenancy covering a flat on the second floor and one of six storerooms in the cellar. These storerooms were located in a row on the right side of the cellar, each having a door opening from the main cellar, the storeroom of the plaintiff being the third from the foot of the cellar stairs. The jury could reasonably have found from the evidence, that about ten o’clock on the evening of May 14th, 1926, the plaintiff and her son and daughter-in-law went from her apartment to…