Legal Opinion
Mahmoud Hassan, Administrator of the Estate of Yameen Hassan, Deceased v. Clayton A. Stafford and Blanche Stafford, Trading as Delmar Motel
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 3, 1973No. 71-1849PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
MAX ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendants, Clayton A. Stafford and Blanche Stafford, appellees in this court, in a diversity action brought in the district of Delaware. Appellant, plaintiff in the district court, sued for damages as a result of the tragic death of Yameen Has-san on April 23, 1969, while he was a paying guest in a commercial motel operated by appellees in New Castle County, Delaware.
A cigarette dropped in a first floor room at appellees’ motel caused a fire in the morning hours of April 23, 1969,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. ShipmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Brady v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Basista v. WeirCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
- Dorsey v. Yoder CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1971
- United States v. 60.14 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Warren and McKean Counties, State of Pennsylvania, and Arthur W. SeibelCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Northern Lights Motel, Inc. v. SweaneyAlaska Supreme Court · 1977
- Lester Gene Brown v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
- Ball v. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1986
- Brown v. County of NassauDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2010
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