Court Opinion

ID: 8825087
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 15:45:11.847986+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:04:45.236161
License: Public Domain

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell delivered the opimon of the court. 5. Pleading, § 466*—when defects or omissions cured by verdict. The general rule is that where there is any defect, imperfection or omission in any pleading, whether in substance or form, which would have been a fatal objection upon demurrer, yet, if the issue joined be such as necessarily required, on the trial, proof of the facts so defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give, or the jury would have given, the verdict, such defect, imperfection or omission is cured by the verdict. 6. Limitation of actions, § 60*—when amendment or additional count merely a restatement of cause of action. Where there is no demurrer to a declaration and the question whether the cause of action stated in an amended declaration or additional count filed after the running of the statute of limitations is the same cause of action as is stated in the original declaration arises upon the pleadings before verdict, such amended declaration or additional count will be held to only restate a good cause of action defectively stated in the original declaration, if the necessary allegations may be fairly and reasonably inferred or may reasonably be found to be implied in what is said in the original declaration. 7. Landlord and tenant, § 258*—when presumed that lessee had object in having stairway repaired. Where a landlord is required by the terms of a lease to remodel a building so that the lower floor could be used for store purposes and the upper floor for flat purposes, by the lessee and to build an exterior stairway as means of access to such upper floor and to keep the stairway in good repair, it must be presumed in an action by the wife of lessee for damages for injuries alleged to be due to defects in the stairway that the lessee had an object in requiring the stairway to be kept in repair, and that it was intended by the lease that he should use it in some way connected with his own home or business. 8. Husband and wife, § 73*—when roife of lessee right to use' stairway on leased premises. A wife has the right to use an exterior, stairway of premises leased by the husband, leading from an upper story used by them for flat purposes to the street. 9. Limitation of actions, § 68*—when declaration defectively stating good cause of action not barred. An original declaration by a wife of a lessee against the landlord for damages for personal injuries sustained because of the failure of the landlord to keep an exterior stairway leading from the second floor of the leased building, the upper floor of which was used by lessee for residence purposes and the lower part for business purposes, to the street, in repair, which alleged that defendant entered into an agreement with the husband of plaintiff to keep the roof, stairway and outer walks of the leased building in good repair and condition, and further averred that thereby defendant undertook to keep said stairway in good repair and condition, held to defectively state a good cause of action as to the duty of the defendant to repair the premises and as to the right of-plaintiff to be upon the stairway when injured, so that when amplified by an additional count setting out the terms of the agreement—a lease—the statute of limitations was not a bar. 10. Landlord and tenant, § 226*—when landlord liable to wife of lessee for damages for personal injuries due to defective stairway. Where a landlord has covenanted to keep premises in repair, the lower floor of which is used by the lessee for business purposes and the upper for residence purposes, he is liable to the wife of the lessee for damages for personal injuries sustained while using a defective stairway leading from the upper floor to the street.