Curtin v. Somerset
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 204 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 418 December Term 1888, G. P. No. 8. On January 18, 1889, John G. Curtin brought trespass against Philip H. Somerset, to recover damages for negligence causing personal injuries to the plaintiff. Issue.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 204 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 418 December Term 1888, G. P. No. 8. On January 18, 1889, John G. Curtin brought trespass against Philip H. Somerset, to recover damages for negligence causing personal injuries to the plaintiff. Issue. At the trial on February 4, 1890, the following facts were shown: Sometime in the year 1887, the defendant took a contract to erect a hotel building at Sea Isle City, New Jersey, for the Sea Isle City Hotel Company. On June 80, 1888, the building having been…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
The defendant, Philip H. Somerset, entered into a contract *77with the Sea Isle City Hotel Company, for the erection of a hotel building, at Sea Isle City, according to certain plans and specifications. The building was completed, and accepted by the hotel company in the presence of their architect and the chairman of the building committee. Subsequently, at an entertainment given at the hotel by the proprietor or lessee, a crowd of persons, some twenty or more, having collected on the porch, a girder, which in part supported it, gave way, the porch fell, and by…
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