Fulton Ice & Coal Co. v. Pece

Beck, P. <7.

The petition for certiorari in this case contains exceptions to the holding of the Court of Appeals that the petition, except in the count which was held to be defective, set forth a cause of action against the plaintiff in certiorari, Fulton Ice & Coal Company. The applicant for certiorari criticises the holding in general terms, upon the ground that the effect of the decision is to lay down the broad doctrine that “the owner of a manufacturing plant is an absolute insurer of the safety of one lawfully on *106his premises, as against latent dangers which a reasonable inspection would…