Smith v. General Apartment Co.

Clark, Judge.

In this tort action, plaintiff, a tenant, appeals from the grant of summary judgment to defendant, her landlord.

Plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries resulting from a rape committed upon her in her apartment by an intruder who gained entrance by a passkey. Her complaint is couched in four counts. Pertinent portions of the third count allege that at the time of this incident, defendant landlord had knowledge that other such episodes had occurred in its apartment complex and that defendant was also aware that the intruders involved in such cases had obtained entry by means of a…