O'Dwyer v. O'Brien
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas J. O’Brien, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 21st day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury for $650, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day 'of February, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
The defendant owned a’ tenement house on the south side of Seneca street, in the city of Buffalo. It was occupied by two tenants. The rear portion, some two years before the accident hereafter referred to, was leased by the, defendant to the plaintiff’s husband; the front portion was occupied by another tenant. The Only means of access to the rear portion of the house from the *571street, that was used in connection with t£iat portion, was an alleyway, about four feet wide, extending from the street back about fifty feet to the entrance of the husband’s premises. At the street there was…
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