Baker v. Minken

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The suit is for damages for personal injury sustained by falling down a staircase at night, in a building situate in Linden, in this state, owned by defendants; plaintiff claiming that the staircase was unlighted. There was a dispute on that point which was properly left to the jury to settle. The critical question in the case was whether the building itself was within the statutory definition of a “tenement house;” plaintiff asserting that it was, and defendant denying it. The only available .ground of appeal is the first, that the trial…