Conroy v. Kleinman Realty Co.

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff, while looking for the basement apartment of the caretaker, fell down the steps into the boiler room of an apartment building owned by defendants. A jury found, by answer to special questions, that defendants were causally negligent and that plaintiff was free of any contributory negligence directly causing her injury. The trial court vacated the jury’s findings of fact and ordered judgment for defendants on the sole ground, stated in its memorandum, that plaintiff was contributorily *63negligent under the so-called “step-in-the-dark rule.” By supplemental order, but…