Sonne v. Booker

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court awarding $10,000 damages to appellee for injuries sustained by him when he fell from the second story landing of an exterior stairway (fire escape) of an apartment building owned by appellant, hereinafter called the landlord.

Appellee, who was two years and eight months old when the injury was sustained, lived in a second story apartment with his parents. The apartment was so situated that it opened onto an enclosed porch at the rear of the building. This porch opened onto a landing which was part of what had…