Cittadino v. Schackter

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kálisoh, J.

The plaintiff, a widow, with her family of children, was a tenant occupying the top floor of defendant’s tenement house in Jersey City at the time of its partial destruction, by fire, in April, 1910. The house was not equipped with fire escapes, as required by the Tenement House act of 1904. The plaintiff, in endeavoring to escape from a window in the rear of her apartment by hanging to a rope lowered from.the roof, fell to the roof of an extension to the premises and suffered the injuries for which she brought this action.

The plaintiff…