Landers v. Brooks

The plaintiff with her husband and family occupied an apartment in a four story building owned by the defendants. There were two apartments on each floor. There were no rear stairs, and no rear entrance to the building except to the apartments on the ground floor. The apartments above the ground floor could not be reached by this entrance. “There was a fire escape on the back of the building,” with platforms on the second, third and fourth floors. A window in the plaintiff’s apartment was opposite the third floor platform. The stairway of the fire escape led from the fourth floor platform to…