Erie City Iron Works v. Barber & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1882, No. 125. Case, by Phineas M. Barber and Ambrose B. Henderson, trading as P. M. Barber & Co., against the Erie City Iron Works, to recover damages for the destruction of plaintiffs’ mill by the explosion of a boiler, which was alleged to have been defectively constructed by defendants. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1882, No. 125. Case, by Phineas M. Barber and Ambrose B. Henderson, trading as P. M. Barber & Co., against the Erie City Iron Works, to recover damages for the destruction of plaintiffs’ mill by the explosion of a boiler, which was alleged to have been defectively constructed by defendants. Plea, not guilty. The plaintiffs’ narr. was in three counts, and was substantially as follows:— The first count set forth that the plaintiffs employed the defendants to construct and build a'boiler of certain size and material…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
As long ago as the case of Chambers & Boyd v. Crawford & Barker, Add. 150, it was, in this state held, that if a workman does a piece of work insufficiently, he is answerable for all the consequences which may result from that insufficiency, and this though the employer may have accepted that work without objection. So also in Godley v. Hagerty, 8 Har. 387, it was determined that where one erects a building for rent, he is bound to reasonable skill and dilligence in its construction, regard being had to the purposes for which it is intended, and that if such building be negligently and…
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- Ebbert v. Philadelphia Electric Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
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