Carey v. Klein

These were actions by husband and wife to recover for damages alleged to have been received in consequence of the fall of the wife upon an unlighted stairway in a tenement building owned by the defendant. She had been calling upon her sister, whose husband was the defendant’s tenant of the apartment upon the second floor of the building numbered 364 Chestnut Street, in Springfield, and was on her way out of the building when she fell on the last step of *92the common stairway between the second and first stories. Upon contradictory evidence, the jury could have found that the hall and stairs at…