Bowser Et Ux. v. Artman

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

At dusk on August 14, 1945, while a V-J Day celebration was taking place in the Borough of Ford City, Armstrong County, a third-floor fire escape on defendants’ apartment building collapsed. Ruth A. Bowser, who had been standing on a balcony with one foot on the platform of that fire escape, plunged to the sidewalk and received crippling injuries. Ruth Bowser and Orlo Bowser, her husband, plaintiffs, brought this action in trespass against Earl Artman and G. C. McElhaney, owners of the building, and defendants herein, to recover damages for those injuries. The jury…