Aldworth v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in falling from a fire escape attached to a building occupied by the defendant. The bill of exceptions states that the “declaration is in two counts, both alleging that the plaintiff was lawfully on the premises in the per*345formance of his duty as a fireman, the first alleging that the defendant was negligent in allowing the fire escape to be in a defective, decayed, unsuitable and unsafe condition, which condition was then and there known to the said defendant or might have…