Sargent v. Ross

The question in this case is whether the defendant landlord is liable to the plaintiff in tort for the death of plaintiff’s four-year-old daughter who fell to her death from an outdoor stairway at a residential building owned by the defendant in Nashua. The defendant resided in a ground floor apartment in the building, and her son and daughter-in-law occupied a second story apartment serviced by the stairway from which the child fell. At the time of the accident the child was under the care of the defendant’s daughter-in-law who was plaintiff’s regular baby-sitter.

Plaintiff brought suit…