Gesswin v. Beckwith

The present suit is an action for personal injuries by the minor child of a tenant against the tenant’s landlord as the result of a fall from an allegedly dangerous and defective ladder of a tree house situated on premises owned by the defendant landlord. The tenant and his child occupied an apartment in a duplex dwelling on those premises.

The tenant is bringing an aetion, both individually and for his minor child, based on various counts sounding in negligence and in nuisance. The defendant demurs to counts two, three, five and six of the complaint. He claims that those counts allege neither…