Fife v. Richards

Walton E. Fife Jr., by next friend, sued Russell E. Richards and Walter A. Rhodes, in their representative capacities as executors of the estate of George Addison Richards, deceased, to recover damages resulting from an alleged tort upon the plaintiff. The petition charged that the defendants were negligent in maintaining upon the premises of an apartment house of the estate, in their possession and under their management and control, a protective fence from which a broken steel wire was allowed to fall and lie upon the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the lawn; and that the plaintiff, a…