Ross v. Koenig

There was a fire of undetermined origin on the third floor of the defendant’s tenement house, as a result of which the plaintiff, an invitee, was trapped there and was severely burned. The defendant appealed from a verdict, and judgment for the plaintiff, alleging errors in the charge.

The building , was of wood and when' originally purchased by the defendant was a two-family house with an-attic arranged for and occupied as the residences of two families, living on the first and second floors. He altered the attic and made it into a tenement of six rooms, thus rearranging the building as a…