In March, 1950, a fire occurred on the ground floor of that building. Plaintiff husband testified that when the third floor became smoke-filled he and his wife started to descend by way of a fire escape, which they reached through a window of their apartment; that his wife fainted and that he carried her down the fire escape to the second floor landing where he seated her; that he attempted for about ten or fifteen minutes to release a drop ladder, which hung by two hooks...
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