Nichols v. Jung Shoe Co.

The plaintiff was a tenant of the defendant corporation and sustained injuries by falling into a basement stairway on a dark night while leaving his leased residence on some ordinary errand by a private way extending along the south side of the defendant’s store and warehouse from the west line of plaintiff’s leased premises east to North Eighth street in the city of Sheboygan. The jury returned a special verdict- finding, among other things, that the defendant by its secretary, Otto Jung, for the purpose of continuing the mutual relation then existing between defendant and plaintiff as…