Schneider v. Dubinsky Realty Co.

These are cross appeals.

The plaintiff, claiming as a tenant of defendants, brought suit for damages for personal injuries received when the back porch of his second floor apartment collapsed while he was on it, causing him to be dropped to a concrete pavement on the ground about fifteen feet below. His apartment was one of sixty-two apartments in a large three-story building known as the Sherwood Court Apartments, located at McPherson and Taylor Avenues, in St. Louis. In 1931, this property was encumbered with a deed of trust to secure the payment of notes, in which the defendant Biehard C.…