Sodekson v. Lynch

This case has been here once before. Sodekson v. Lynch, 298 Mass. 72. At the second trial the plaintiff got a verdict for personal injuries caused by a fall at • about half past eight o’clock in the evening, when it was “dusk turning to dark,” of August 29, 1931, on a common stairway in the defendants’ six-family apartment house in Boston. There was evidence that the fall was due to the failure of the defendants to light the stairway, as the declaration alleged. The plaintiff’s father had been a tenant of an apartment on the third floor since November, 1930, at which time the automatic device…