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HORNE v. ADAMS

No. 3771.

218 A.2d 513 (1966)

Paula T. HORNE and Edgar S. Horne, Appellants, v. George W. ADAMS and H. L. Rust Company, a corporation, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 15, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saul M. Schwartzbach, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Francis J. Ford, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.

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...

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