Schafer v. Mascola

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on a jury verdict. The complaint sought damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence.

Thé defendants, husband and wife, are the owners of a two flat apartment house in Berkeley. Both flats are rented to tenants.. At the back of the property there is an outside wooden stairway from the ground to the upstairs flat. There is also a front stairway. On April 30, 1956, the plaintiff, a grocer, used the back stairway to deliver some groceries to the tenants of the upper…