Ruane v. Doyle

The plaintiff, as tenant at will, occupied the third story apartment of a three-family house owned by the defendant. The defendant testified that the front *419stairway led to a landing just outside the door of the plaintiff’s apartment, and just above this landing there was a skylight in the roof, “which skylight existed for the purpose of throwing light down onto the front stairway.” At some time during the plaintiff’s tenancy, the defendant repaired this skylight and the roof, and, in order to do so, it was necessary to place ladders and erect a staging on the landing. There was no other way…