Springer v. Labow

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

Plaintiffs were tenants of defendant. They are wife and husband and sue for personal injuries to the wife, with accruing damage to the husband, arising out of a fall that the wife had from the second story of the leased premises due, as is alleged, to a defective railing.

In the course of the trial it developed that the defendant had gone to the office of plaintiffs’ counsel and there conversed with one Jacobson, an investigator, who occupied an office in the suite of, and did business for, plaintiffs’ counsel and prepared most of the latter’s…