Collier v. Collins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Gudrun S. Collier, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 6th day of April, 1900, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial before the court and a jury at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
At the time of the accident hereinafter referred to the plaintiff with her husband occupied the ground floor of a tenement house on President street in the borough of Brooklyn. Two other families lived in the house. There was an entrance for all the tenants to the rear yard through the cellar and up into the yard, which could have been used by the plaintiff inasmuch as it was used by the other tenants. At the rear of the plaintiff’s flat was a window opening into the yard, the sill being about two feet above the surface of the yard. There was also, at this window and opening…
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