Lipsitz v. Schechter

Plaintiff, Florence Lipsitz, was employed as a nurse-housekeeper by a tenant in defendants’ apartment building and lived with her employer in her employer’s apartment.

On the afternoon of June 28, 1962, plaintiff and her employer left defendants’ apartment building by a rear door. As she was closing the door, plaintiff was struck by a screen which fell from a window of apartment 402 on the fourth floor. There was no claim that there was anyone in the apartment at the time the screen fell. The lessees of apartment 402 are not parties to this action.

Plaintiff sued the lessor-owners for the…