Dean v. Board of Trustees of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Bldg.

The plaintiff, Flora Dean, by her second amended petition filed in the Court of Common Pleas sought to recover damages from the defendants jointly, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her when she entered into the building in question through a public entrance thereto, vis., a certain storm door and vestibule, and then, within the vestibule, opened another door which had no sign upon it and plunged down a flight of stone steps to the basement of the building. The specifications of negligence alleged against the defendants may be stated generally as failure to light that part of the…