Perry v. Bangs

These two actions are by different plaintiffs against the same defendants; the declarations are the same in both, and the demurrers are the same. The actions are brought under St. 1888, c. 426, §§ 1 and 12, and the allegations are in substance that the defendants were the owners of a hotel in the city of Boston “ in which ten or more persons were- lodging and residing above the second story ”; that said hotel was not provided “ with proper ways of egress or other means of escape from fire, sufficient for the use of all persons accommodated, assembling, employed, lodging, and residing in said…