Diamond v. Simcovitz

The plaintiff Augusta Diamond, a member of the family of one Shapiro, the tenant, seeks to recover, from the defendant landlord for personal injuries sustained on May 26,1937, when the railing on' a second story piazza, which she alleges the defendant had assumed a contractual liability to repair and had then repaired in a negligent manner, gave way and caused her to fall to the ground. The second action is brought by her husband to recover consequential damages. The plaintiffs excepted to the direction of verdicts for the defendant.

*151There was evidence that for a number of years prior to…