Calvert

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Elizabeth Calvert, and alleged to have been caused by the negligence and carelessness of the defendant corporation in permitting and allowing the sidewalk in front of a building owned by it to become defective. The defendant corporation is and was at the time of the accident the owner of a certain building on Turk Street, near Market Street, which was occupied by a tenant holding under a written lease. The facts are practically undisputed, and the court found that at the time of the leasing of the premises by the defendant to the tenant, the said premises, including the sidewalk in front thereof, were in first-class condition and that there were no holes, breaks, or depressions or other defects of any kind whatsoever in the sidewalk, and that said premises were in all respects in good condition; that the tenant expressly agreed in-the said lease that all repairs necessary to the said premises should be made by said tenant at its own cost and expense and that the lessor should not be called upon to make any repairs whatever; that…