Care v. Berger

DOWLING, J.,

The great flood of ’72 is still with us. A seventh-floor tenant in the Executive House, one of our local skyscrapers, should have been safe from the raging Susquehanna; yet the effect of its inundating waters percolated into this modern structure, attacking its electrical power source so that the office/apartment complex was deprived of light, heat and elevator. Plaintiff, stranded in the lobby, suffered serious injuries in a fall while ascending, in the dark, an emergency stairway in an attempt to reach her apartment.

She sued, alleging various acts of negligence, including…