Deno v. Standard Furniture Co.

These are actions for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiffs as the result of the breaking and giving way of the railing of an outside stairway appurtenant to a tenement house owned by the Standard Furniture Company. The plaintiffs joined, as parties defendant, the Standard Furniture Company, Berman Schoenfeld, L. Kenneth Schoenfeld et ux., Herbert A. Schoenfeld et ux., and Oser Dreck Company, a corporation. The cases were consolidated for trial.

At the close of the plaintiffs’ case, the court granted motions for dismissal as to all the defendants except Oser Dreck Company. The…