Corbett v. Salusti

The plaintiff, an employee of the United States postal department, fell into a stair well, which led from the rear yard into the basement of the post office building in Watertown, as he was leaving the premises at about five-thirty o’clock on the afternoon of December 28, 1948. The entire building was used and occupied by the government as a post office under a lease which was executed in 1943 for the term of ten years. The lessee also had the right to use a driveway which ran from the street, along the side of the building, and into the rear yard which extended about thirty feet from the…