Boudro v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

This is a suit by the wife of a tenant against the owner and the insurance carrier, in solido, for the sum of $12,500 damages, for personal injuries consisting of a fractured external malleolus of the left ankle, said to have resulted when the fifth step of the staircase broke due to “the rottenness thereof and its supports or foundations and that, as a result thereof, your petitioner fell backwards to the floor.”

The defendants answered admitting that the plaintiff was the wife of the tenant in the premises, but denying that she had fallen as a result of any vice or defect in the premises,…