Falzone v. Gruner

The plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Linda Falzone, brought this action to recover damages for her death from a fall upon a stairway in the defendant’s building, of which she was a tenant, alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and the defendant has appealed. The decedent was tenant of an apartment occupied by her three adult children and herself on the second floor of the defendant’s four-story, four-family tenement house in Waterbury. A common stairway with a right-angle turn near the top led from the first to the…