Staples v. Senders

Numerous questions have been argued touching the liability of a landlord to an invitee of a tenant injured on the demised premises, and as to the construction and applicability of the ordinance pleaded and relied on by the plaintiff, none of which we find it necessary to discuss or decide, because we are of the opinion that if the defendant was guilty of any negligence, either under the common law or by reason of failure to comply with the ordinance, such negligence was not the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury.

If the ordinance be given the construction placed upon it by the…