Price v. Grantz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
EBBOB TO THE COTJBT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 163 October Term 1887, Snp. Ct.; court below, No. 276 April Term 1885, C. P. No. 2. On February 27,1885, an action in case for maintaining a nuisance was brought by George Grantz against W. G. Price and Mary Lane, partners as William G. Price & Co., the Berlin Iron and Lead Co. and others.
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EBBOB TO THE COTJBT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 163 October Term 1887, Snp. Ct.; court below, No. 276 April Term 1885, C. P. No. 2. On February 27,1885, an action in case for maintaining a nuisance was brought by George Grantz against W. G. Price and Mary Lane, partners as William G. Price & Co., the Berlin Iron and Lead Co. and others. The declaration described the property owned and occupied by him and his family and complained: And the said defendants have been the owners or lessees and possessed for many years of a lot or piece of ground situate in said city of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Paxson :
The learned court below declined to affirm the defendants’ tenth point, for the reason that it was only a naked proposition, unconnected with the facts of the case.
*412I assume the learned judge would not have denied the point, had he considered that there was evidence from which the jury might have found the facts of which it is predicated. An injury to a single individual from lead poisoning, because of a peculiar and exceptional susceptibility of such person to such influence, when the trace of arsenic or lead was so slight as not in any degree to affect other…
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