Miranda de Rodríguez v. Méndez Rodríguez

This is an action for damages. The allegations of the complaint are substantially that the plaintiff was living in a house leased by her from the defendant; that the stairway for ingress and egress to and from the house was in a bad state of repair, a fact of which the defendant had been notified; that on December 9, 1933, the stair broke while the plaintiff was going down and the plaintiff fell to the ground, fracturing her right hand, suffering intense pain, incurring expenses and being confined to bed for one month; that the accident was entirely due to defendant’s fault in maintaining his…