Legal Opinion
Harrington v. 615 West Corp.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 8, 1957PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*480Yan Yoorhis, J.
This action is to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, Elizabeth Harrington, when she tripped on a rope and fell on the roof of an apartment house owned by defendant, 615 West Corp. Mrs. Harrington was not a trespasser. She and her husband were tenants in the apartment house and were permitted by the landlord, in common with other tenants, to use the roof as a place for drying laundry where clotheslines were maintained for the convenience of tenants. The rope over which she tripped had been strung across her path about six inches above the roof by a…
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