Osgood v. Therriault

This is an action of tort tried to a jury to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, a woman sixty-five years of age, by reason of falling over a step in a stairway leading from the fourth to the third floor of an apartment house, of which the plaintiff was a tenant and the defendant the owner.

The apartment house, located at 100 Lafayette Street, Salem, had been occupied by the plaintiff for several years prior to April 25, 1931, the day of the accident. It had two stores on the first floor and fifteen apartments on the three floors above. The plaintiff testified that…