Dombroski v. Abrams

The plaintiff brought her action to recover damages for injuries received by reason of a fall due, as she claims, to a defective railing of a rear veranda on the second story of a tenement house owned by the defendant. The jury rendered a verdict in her favor and the defendant has appealed. The plaintiff occupied a tenement on the second floor of the building and was upon the veranda for the purpose of using a clothesline attached to one of its posts. She was reaching for the line when she came in contact with the railing, and it gave way, causing her to fall to the ground. The defendant…