Mayer v. Laux

The plaintiff charges the defendant, her landlord, with negligence, whereby she. suffered injuries and seeks to support.'her allegations by proof, that when upon the balcony of the fire-escape, opening from the apartment leased to her, she stepped upon a trapdoor forming part of -the flooring of such balcony and was injured by reason .of the trapdoor breaking from its hinges, which had become rusted- and insecure. Her presence upon this balcony was under a license from the defendant to use it as a means to the drying of clothes, and for this purpose the balcony was also used by the tenant of…