Battschinger v. Robinson

*740The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturr, J.

Two cases involving the claims of parent and child, respectively, arising out of an accident to the latter, were tried together in the Essex Circuit and a judgment was rendered for each. The infant plaintiff, while delivering ice in the course of his emplojunent to a tenant in the defendant's apartment-house in Newark, was injured by- the fall of a dumb waiter, and upon the alleged negligence of the landlord in failing to repair, the actions are founded.

Liability of the landlord is predicated upon the theory that from want' of proper…