Gumenick v. UNITED STATES AND REED

Appellants Nathan S. Gumenick, Jerome Gumenick, Harry Gran-dis and Harriett Grandis appeal two judgments of the lower court, one in favor of appellee, Eulis Reed, for $650,000 and the other in favor of appellee, United States of America, for $10,440. Reed sustained permanent injuries when he fell from the second floor porch of an apartment owned and controlled by appellants as a result of their alleged failure to exercise reasonable care in maintaining the handrailing on the porch.

Although appellants made 40 assignments of error we are essentially concerned here with the questions of…