SARGENT v. ROSS

No. 6338

113 N.H. 388 (1973)

TINA SARGENT, ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA M. SARGENT v. FABIOLA ROSS

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

July 31, 1973


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard & Harkaway and Leonard P. Shapiro (Mr. Shapiro orally) for the plaintiff.

Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeen, Pingree & Bigg and William S. Orcutt (Mr. Orcutt orally) for the defendant.


KENISON, C.J.

The question in this case is whether the defendant landlord is liable to the plaintiff in tort for the death of plaintiff's four-year-old daughter who fell to her death from an outdoor stairway at a residential building owned by the defendant in Nashua. The defendant resided in a ground floor apartment in the building, and her son and daughter-in-law occupied a second story apartment serviced by the stairway...

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