Bogutz v. Margolin

Opinion by

Me. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

Mr. and Mrs. Bogutz (the appellants) on August 16, 1954, and for approximately five years prior thereto, were tenants under a written lease of apartment No. 612 located in an apartment house in Merion, Pa., owned, operated and maintained by the appellees.

On that day the wife-appellant, while passing through the basement of the apartment house en route to the garage — a usual and customary passageway for the tenants — slipped and fell, allegedly, by reason of an accumulation of oil and grease on the floor, sustaining severe personal injuries.

A suit to…