Przwgocki v. Wikris

The defendant, Blanche Wikris, was the owner of a building located at the corner of Wallace and Humphrey Streets, New Haven. She maintained a tavern on the ground floor and employed the defendant Peter Wikris therein as a bartender. Beneath a window in the tavern opening on Wallace Street was a cellar hatchway with hinged doors slanting from the window sill to the ground level. The wall of the building was four feet inside the building or property line and the hatchway was entirely on the defendants’ property. Wallace Street runs north and-south. The sidewalk was extended to the wall of the…