King v. G & M REALTY CORP.

Upon trial in the Superior Court in February, 1976, the plaintiff Barbara King won a verdict and judgment against the defendant G & M Realty Corporation on the ground of the defendant’s negligence.

The plaintiff testified that in April, 1968, she was the tenant with her four children in a first-floor apartment at 57 Templeton Street, in the Dorchester district of Boston. A rear stairway served all six apartments of the three-story building. At 7:30 a.m. on April 26, 1968, 1 the plaintiff, carrying rubbish from her apartment, started to go down the stairs from the first floor. A top stair had…