Legal Opinion
Hitchner Wall Paper Co. v. Pennsylvania R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 10, 1909No. 33PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
The Hitchner Wall Paper Company, the plaintiff below and plaintiff in error, conducted a wall paper factory at Holmesburg, in the state of Pennsylvania. The factory building, of which the plaintiff was lessee, was a two-story and basement brick building, situate immediately west and alongside of the New York Division of the defendant company, its front running for about 200 feet parallel with the railroad and about 41 feet from the west rail of the west track thereof. Sometime in the forenoon óf May 5, 1906, a fire occurred in said factory, which destroyed a large quantity…
2Cited by5 opinions
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