Nadel v. Fichten
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry 0. Eichten, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 24th day of June, 1898,. upon the verdict of a jury for $850, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of July, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff was a tenant in a house in the borough of Brooklyn owned by the defendant. The hallway and stairs in this house, were used by the several tenants thereof in common. The plaintiff, while on her way from the apartment which she occupied tO’ the lower hall, fell upon the stairs "and was injured. She alleged in her complaint that the injuries which she thus sustained were occasioned without any fault or negligence on her part, “ but were caused by the negligence of the defendant in failing to properly light said hall and stairs, and in having said stairs…
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