Farguet v. Desenti

The plaintiff brings this action against the owners of a tenement house to recover for injuries suffered by reason of the breaking of a rail of a veranda at the rear of the house. There were three tenements in the house, each occupying one floor. There was a porch running across the rear of the house on each floor and stairways led from that one on the first floor to that on the second floor and from that on the second floor to that on the third. Access was gained to the porch on the first floor by steps leading up to it from the rear yard. These steps were located on the side of the porch…