Stenholtz v. Modica

*516DUNN, Chief Justice.

This is a personal injury action in which the plaintiff, a building contractor, alleged he was injured while working on the defendant’s house as a result of the defendant’s negligence in maintaining a dangerous condition and failing to warn of the danger. A jury in the Second Judicial Circuit awarded the plaintiff damages in the amount of $7,000. The defendant appeals from the trial court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiff. We affirm.

The plaintiff is an independent contractor who has been in the lathing, plastering and dry walling business since 1939. In June of 1975, he…