181 A.D. 387 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1918
0The complaint shows that Gerard, named as defendant, is in control of a tenement house by virtue of a trust authorizing it; that plaintiff became tenant therein, and that defendant was so negligent in doing things and omitting things relating to the maintenance of common stairs that plaintiff, using the stairs, was hurt. The action is against the individual, and the only question is whether it states a cause of action. The plaintiff asserts that a piece of metal on the stairs caused him to fall, and that defendant carelessly placed it there in an improper manner, and allowed it to become loosened and defective. There is an assertion of something affirmatively done by defendant followed by his neglect of it. Flis opportunity to do such things came from his trusteeship, but his negligent doing was individual misfeasance, occurring while he was purporting to do what his trust required, j That gives a cause of action against him personally, and Requires the
The interlocutory judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Jenks, P. J., Putnam, Blackmar and Kelly, JJ., concurred.
Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs.