Gumenick v. UNITED STATES AND REED

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• holding that it is the duty of apartment owners to maintain the apartments’ porches and railings in a reasonable state of repair
• ample evidence existed for jury to find that landlord failed to adequately inspect rotten wood railing, including testimony that the latent rotten condition could have been detected by sounding, tapping, or probing the wood
• ample evidence existed for jury to find that landlord failed to adequately inspect rotten wood railing, including testimony that the latent rotten condition could have been detected by sounding, tapping, or probing the wood
• \If in the exercise of ordinary care the appellant landlords could have discovered the defective condition of the rail in time to have repaired it or replaced [it] prior to the occasion of plaintiff's fall and injury they should have done so.\
• landlord in control of premises

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