Painter v. Mayor of Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case by Nancy Jane Painter against The Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for causing the death of her husband by negligently leaving a sewer on Duquesne Way, in said city, open and unprotected by proper barricades, &c., which the city of Pittsburgh was having constructed, from Liberty street to the Allegheny river.
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Error, to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case by Nancy Jane Painter against The Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for causing the death of her husband by negligently leaving a sewer on Duquesne Way, in said city, open and unprotected by proper barricades, &c., which the city of Pittsburgh was having constructed, from Liberty street to the Allegheny river. The defendants, as matter of defence, alleged that the city was not constructing said sewer through the regular officers of'the city, but under a contract with Allen & Kerr,…
1Opinion of the Court
*220The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J. — The
case was to the to find whether the injury which resulted in the death of the plaintiff’s husband was or was not occasioned by the negligence of the defendants’ contractors, or that of the contractors’ agents and servants, and the verdict establishes that it was. To this mode of submitting the case no exception was taken, and nothing is therefore presented to us but the questions reserved. Of these, it is necessary to consider only one, whiéh is, whether a corporation is responsible for an injury occasioned by the negligence of…
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