Forte, J.
This is an action for negligence wherein the plaintiff-tenant seeks damages for personal injuries she allegedly sustained in a fall which she attributes to the unsafe and dangerous condition of a common stairway in an apartment building owned by the defendant-landlord.
Included in the defendant's answer was the defense of "contributory negligence." See G.L.c. 231, § 85 — Comparative Negligence.
After trial, the judge made extensive...
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