Jaffe v. Powell

The journal entry of the Court of Appeals in this case recites: ‘ ‘ The judgment of the said court of common pleas is reversed, for error in the exclusion of evidence; no other error appearing in the record, and this cause is remanded to said court of common pleas for further proceedings.”

The evidence excluded related to the attempt of the plaintiffs below to show the fact of other fires having occurred in this wooden chute or dumb waiter, of which fact the plaintiffs claimed the defendants hadi knowledge.

It is to be noted that it was the creation and maintenance of a fire hazard in this…