Sidway v. Greater Atlantic Finance & Mortgage Co.

The instant case is an appeal from a judgment recorded by the plaintiff against the defendant in the Common Pleas Court of Atlantic county. The plaintiff was a tenant in an apartment house and sustained injuries on the roof thereof where he had gone to remove some clothes from a clothes line, the boardwalk under foot having given away so that he suffered personal injury.

The defendant appeals on the ground that the trial court should have granted its motion for nonsuit; should have directed a verdict on the ground the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, and, further, that there…