Marlow v. Shiffman

The petition alleges that she rented a certain house from the defendants in December, 1908; that to induce the renting the defendants’stated that the three wooden steps lading from the street into the house while loose and old were safe, and the defendants would soon or at once put them in complete repair.

Plaintiff says that relying upon said promise she moved into said house and lived there; and to enter said house, or depart therefrom, used said steps; that defendants frequently before the grievances complained of assured said plaintiff that said steps were safe, for walking thereon, and…