Quinn v. Crowe

The appellee sued, and recovered, in the Circuit Court, a judgment for $800, for injuries alleged to have been sustained to her person by being precipitated from the porch of a house belonging to the appellant and rented by appellant to the appellee, or her daughter, for occupation by herself and daughters.

The appellee fell from the porch at a time when she, with several other members of her family, was occupying it, she knowing at the time that it was in a defective condition of repair, in that the upper one of the three rails that inclosed one side of the porch had been broken off some'days…