Normandin v. Freidson

Plaintiffs appeal from separate judgments entered pursuant to directed verdicts.

Plaintiffs rented a residence from defendant on August 5, 1926. Defendant agreed to make certain specific repairs. He made them. The controversy relates to the negotiations relative to a stairway leading into the cellar. The two bottom steps were missing. The two upper steps were apparently an inch thick, while the others were perhaps two inches thick. These two top steps were some what triangular in form in order to compensate for a turn on entering the stairway at the top. The stairway was near the soil beneath,…