Torres v. Metropolitan School of Commerce

Mr. Justice Ramírez Bages

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The owner of a building, Eduardo Álvarez, and the lessee of the third floor of that property, Metropolitan School of Commerce and/or its director, Pablo J. Quiñones, were solidarity ordered to pay 50 percent of the damages sustained by Alba Celenia Torres, appellee herein, as a result of a fall while descending the stairway leading from that floor to the second floor of the building. The trial judge determined that:

“2. . . . The lease contract existing between the educational institution and the landlord did not include the stairway…