Hassell v. Denning

The plaintiffs, Frank J. and Winifred Hassell, as husband and wife, brought this action to recover damages on account of personal injuries sustained by the latter in falling from a landing at the top of an outside stairway in the rear of a two-story dwelling, plaintiffs being at the time the occupants of a portion of said dwelling and alleging that said landing was used jointly by them and defendants. The immediate cause of the accident was the collapse of a wooden railing inclosing said landing, plaintiffs alleging that the same was faultily constructed, insecure, latently defective, and…