Berghman v. Dufresne

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on a directed verdict for the defendants, at the close of plaintiff’s evidence and upon the ground of contributory negligence, in an action for damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of defendants in maintaining an unsafe and dangerous balcony railing.

In the declaration it is alleged that the defendants negligently permitted the railing on the balcony to become rotten and unsafe. In the pleas filed by the defendants they deny “that they knew or…