Wells v. Citizens & Southern Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• summary judgment affirmed where tenant walked down unlighted stairway rather than take an alternative safe means of egress that was readily accessible
• unsafe heater in Thompson was inherently dangerous and tenant had no alternative but to use it
• unsafe heater in Thompson was inherently dangerous and tenant had no alternative but to use it
• summary judgment was properly granted for the defendant where the plaintiff chose to use a dark rear stairway as a matter of convenience, even though he could have used an alternative, but less convenient, means of egress
• summary judgment properly granted where plaintiff had alternate route around hazard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).