Taylor v. Majestic Building & Loan Ass'n

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pebskie, J.

This is defendant’s appeal from judgments entered by the trial judge, sitting without a jury, in favor of the infant plaintiff for $100 and in favor of the father for $41 and costs.

The defendant owned a four-story sixteen-tenant apartment house building in Newark, New Jersey. The basement apartment was leased by a Mrs. Bowman, with whom the infant plaintiff was temporarily domiciled. In order to obtain access to this apartment it was necessary to descend a stairway leading from the sidewalk. While descending this stairway the infant…