Rosenberg v. Chapman National Bank

These are actions to recover damages for injuries proved to have been suffered by the wife of a tenant and alleged to have been caused by a landlord’s negligence.

The plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg, occupied, under leasehold from the defendants, one of the second floor tenements in a house on Congress Street, Portland. No description of the house is necessary to an understanding of the case except the following: “It is a three-story house. Each story has a back piazza. The roof of the upper piazza which is superimposed upon the others is not and so far as appears has never been provided…