Wixon v. Bruce

These were two actions of tort for injuries suffered by the plaintiff in the first action, who was the wife of the plaintiff in the second action, from falling upon an accumulation of ice on a sidewalk in front of a building owned by the defendant Bruce, caused by the discharge of water from a conductor which took the water from the roof of that building and the building adjoining it. At the time of the accident the ground floor and basement of Bruce’s building, with the exception of a hoistway and the stairs to the upper stories, were in the possession of the defendants Crowley and McCarthy…