Presbrey v. Old Colony & Newport Railway Co.

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• tenant on stairway outside leased premises was not “upon his own premises”
• Under Mansfield's Digest § 1907, the common stairway of a building, on the upper floor of which defendant and other persons rented and occupied offices for business purposes, is a public place, and cannot be claimed by defendant to be one's own premises.

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