Gregor v. Cady
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On MOTION. This was an action by a tenant to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through the negligence of the landlord in making repairs to the premises.
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On MOTION. This was an action by a tenant to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through the negligence of the landlord in making repairs to the premises. (Declaration.) In a plea of the case, for that the said defendant, to wit, on the first day of August, A. D. 1887, was the owner of a certain building or dwelling-house situated on the southerly corner of York and State streets, in said Portland, in which was a certain tenement consisting of four or. five rooms with shed and water closet adjoining and appurtenant thereto, which said shed and water closet, and the timbers and…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
Tn August 1887, the defendant leased in writing to the plaintiff a second story tenement including a shed and privy attached to Avhicli access was had by a bridge from the kitchen. Subsequently, but prior to March 1888, the attention of the lessor was called to the rickety condition of some portion *136of the premises especially the bridge; and he with a carpenter made repairs of the bridge. On March 14, 1888, while the plaintiff was in the privy, the floor gave way whereupon she in falling seized hold of the door-stool to prevent herself from going down several feet into the vault and was…
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