Nicholls v Lyons - [1955] NZLR 1097

Negligence — Landlord and Tenant — Injury of Tenant — Two Tenements in Building — Common Access by Stairway — Tenant injured through Defective State thereof — Implied Undertaking by Landlord in Contract of Letting to keep Common Means of Access in Reasonably Safe Condition — Retention of Landlord of Sufficient Measure of Control and Possession of Means of Access to render Him liable for Injury to Tenant if Defect therein — Tenant's Injury resulting from Landlord's Failure to keep Such Common Means of Access Reasonably Safe.