In the title compound, C(14)H(15)NO(3), all non-H atoms except for those of the methyl and the disordered ethyl groupare approximately co-planar, the largest deviation from the mean plane being 0.0223 (13) Å at the N atom. In the crystal, the packing of mol-ecules through weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions leads to the formation of layers parallel to bc plane. Within these layers, there exist slipped π-π stacking inter-actions between symmetry-related fused rings [centroid-centroid distances = 3.527 (3) and 3.554 (3), slippage = 0.988 and 1.011 Å, respectively]. One ethyl group is disordered over two sets of sites with site-occupation factors of 0.54 and 0.46.