Lester v. Foster

In the city court of Atlanta Mrs. J. B. Lester sued S. W. Foster for damages, alleging in part that she was the lessee of a unit of an apartment house in Atlanta, owned by the defendant; that about 9.30 p. m. on March 19, 1928, said building “caught fire in the basement and burned through to the roof from front to rear;” that the defendant was “under duty to employ and keep on the premises a full-time janitor;” that in violation of this duty he employed a negro who lived on the premises and who “acted as janitor for the premises at the said address occasionally and when off duty at his…