Kelenic v. Berndt

It appears without dispute that under the rules of the industrial commission a building that accommodates more than four families must be illuminated from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, in the public passageways and stairways, and that there shall be a light at the head and foot of every stairway. The trial court correctly held that the duty thus imposed upon *242the defendant landlord was a statutory one, to which assumption of risk was not a defense, and that under the doctrine of Beck v. Siemers, 174 Wis. 437, 183 N. W. 157, the use by the deceased of the unlighted stairway…