Plaintiff, who was a guest in defendants' building, alleges that a person who turned out to be a building tenant attacked her in a hallway and then dragged her to an unlocked, vacant apartment nearby where he completed the attack. She seeks to recover on the theory that the unlocked, vacant apartment was a lapse of building security that proximately caused her injuries.
Generally, a landlord is "responsible for and presumed to be capable of maintaining his premises...
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