Darlington v. Railway Exchange Building, Inc.

The respondent recovered $10,000 damages from appellant in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis for personal injuries sustained in falling down a dark stairway leading from the seventeenth to the sixteenth floor of the Railway Exchange Building in that city. The stairway was designed as a fire escape and had an outside window, but the casualty occurred at night. Tfie petition alleged that appellant for a long time had knowingly and negligently permitted the stairway to be used as a common passageway by tenants and their invitees though it was dangerous in design, and unillumined…