Harry C. Gravely v. The Providence Partnership, a Corporation

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The problem here is the responsibility of an architect to a hotel guest in Virginia injured in a fall on the spiral stairway in his suite of rooms, allegedly caused by fault in the architect’s design of the stairway and the adjacent area and in his supervision of its construction. The complaint in the guest’s action against the architect here declared both in negligence and in Warranty-

Holding that under the law of Virginia no such warranty was implied in the obliga tion of the architect either to the hotel owner-employer or to the public, and as none was…