DeNegro v. Christman
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the City C-ourt of the city of New York entered in favor of the plaintiff upon a verdict of the jury.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
The plaintiff was a tenant of the first floor above the store in premises owned by the defendant. On each of the floors there was a line operated by pulleys extending from near the rear windows to the wall of a rear building. These lines were used by the respective tenants for the purpose of hanging out their wash. On the store floor there was an extension nineteen feet wide and twenty-one feet deep, the roof of which is about three or four inches below the sill of the windows in the rear of plaintiff’s premises, and slopes down sixteen inches to the outer edge of the roof. Plaintiff used…
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- Franklin v. . BrownNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
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- Alperin v. EarleNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- Rouillon v. WilsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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