SHERRARD v. LIDYOFF

Docket No. 18548.

108 Cal.App.2d 325 (1951)

239 P.2d 28

LILLIE SHERRARD, Appellant, v. MARY E. LIDYOFF, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

December 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.A. Oppenheim and Ward Sullivan for Appellant.

Moss, Lyon & Dunn, Sidney A. Moss and Henry F. Walker for Respondent.


HANSON, J. pro tem.

This is an appeal by a tenant from an order granting a nonsuit in favor of the landlord in an action for personal injuries occasioned by a defect in the bottom step of a backyard stairway which led to the tenant's apartment and to no other. The tenant occupied the premises with her family upon a month-to-month rental basis. There was no written lease between the tenant and the landlord.

In 1947 a car backed into the lower step of the stairway...

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