Abrahams v. Zisman

The father of the minor plaintiff was a tenant at will in a house owned by the defendant. A granolithic walk extended from the front steps over the defendant’s land to the public sidewalk. It is not questioned that the granolithic walk was a common passageway in the control of the defendant. At the time when the tenancy began there was no difference in grade between the granolithic walk and the public sidewalk.

*376In October, 1933, the city laid a new sidewalk, and in so doing changed the grade so that one corner of the adjacent end of the granolithic walk was at the grade of the sidewalk, and…