Rhodes v. Fuller Land & Improvement Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The plaintiffs below, who are husband and wife, resided in an apartment house in the,city of Newark owned by the defendant company. On June 11th, 1917, the plaintiff Annie M. Rhodes, at about three o’clock in the afternoon, left her apartment to go to a storeroom, located in the basement, which had been provided for her use in connection with the apartment. To reach this room it was necessary for her to use a common stairway leading from the first floor to the basement. Whilst she “was trying <o get down the lower” of two flights of steps…