Phillips v. Capital Inv. & Guaranty Co.

CAYTON, Associate Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff below, was a tenant in an apartment building of the defendants and was injured in a fall on the stairs on July 14, 1940. About 8 o’clock in the evening of that day, plaintiff left her apartment on the second floor to visit other tenants on the fourth floor. Receiving no response to the elevator bell, she walked up the public stairway. The light was then out at the third floor platform. About an hour later she started back to her own apartment. Again receiving no response to the elevator bell, she started to return by the same stairway. She kept her…