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LEIBIG v. SOMERVILLE SENIOR HOUSING

740 A.2d 686 (1999)

326 N.J. Super. 102

Ruth M. LEIBIG, and The Estate of Ruth M. Leibig, and Barbara Marlowe, Executor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOMERVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING, INC., Defendant-Respondent.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided November 24, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Villere, Jr., Morristown, for plaintiff-appellant Estate of Ruth Leibig.

Bivona, Cohen, Kunzman, Coley, Yospin, Bernstein & DiFrancesco, for defendant-respondent (Stephen O. Davis and Ruth M. Meyer, Warren, on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER, LANDAU and CIANCIA.

The opinion of the court was delivered by CIANCIA, J.A.D.

Ruth M. Leibig, a seventy-eight year old woman who was active and self-sufficient, lived by herself in an apartment building owned and operated by defendant Somerville Senior Citizens Housing, Inc. Ms. Leibig had lived in the apartment complex since 1985. On May 16, 1994, she was discovered in her bathtub with her arm wedged between the bathroom wall and a grab bar mounted on the wall. She was conscious and...

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