Horne v. Adams

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellants were tenants in an apartment building owned and managed by appellees Adams and H. L. Rust Company respectively. On the evening of July 29, 1961, Mrs. Horne and a visiting neighbor smelled smoke in the hallway outside her third-floor apartment. After calling the fire department they started to leave the building. While descending the stairs from the third to the second floor, Mrs. Horne, who was carrying her infant daughter, fell and injured herself. She and her husband subsequently instituted this action against appellees for personal injuries arising out of…