Gillard v. Hoffman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action was one for damages resulting from personal injury. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff appeals.

The ground of the action was that the defendants maintained, as a fire escape from the third story of -their building, a ladder which rested on the roof of a one-story extension of the structure, which leaned against the perpendicular brick wall, and which reached a point near to a window of the third story. The ladder was not secured, either at the bottom or the top, in such a way as to prevent it from slipping.…