Rosenthal v. Seville

Plaintiffs' lessors leased from the defendant owner a store on the ground floor of the premises in question, which store extended beyond the rear wall of the building, making what is known as an extension, in the roof of which there were two skylights, and they in turn sublet the front easterly half of that space to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs neither leased nor had access to said extension. The evidence shows that rain found its way into plaintiffs’ portion on June fifteenth after the place had been closed for the night, and this condition was not discovered until the following morning…