Folkman v. Lauer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 50, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Jan. T., J. D. No. 60, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Herman Folkman v. Frank D. Lauer. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Wagner, J. Tbe opinion of tbe Superior Court, by Henderson, J., in Kane v. Lauer, 52 Pa. Superior Ct. 467, was as follows: Tbe plaintiff was injured by tbe collapse of a grandstand at a baseball park owned by tbe defendant.
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Appeal, No. 50, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Jan. T., J. D. No. 60, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Herman Folkman v. Frank D. Lauer. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Wagner, J. Tbe opinion of tbe Superior Court, by Henderson, J., in Kane v. Lauer, 52 Pa. Superior Ct. 467, was as follows: Tbe plaintiff was injured by tbe collapse of a grandstand at a baseball park owned by tbe defendant. Tbe evidence offered in support of the action tended to show ' that some of tbe upright timbers supporting tbe structure bad become decayed and…
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Per Cüriam,
The plaintiff was injured by the breakihg of the wooden supports of a pavilion in an amusement park owned by the defendant and leased by him six weeks before the accident to a tenant to be used for public entertainments. The pavilion was erected four years before the time of the accident, by a former tenant of the defendant and it came into the defendant’s possession two years before on the expiration of the lease. The main question of fact at the trial was whether the defects in the wooden supports which caused the pavilion to break down were the result of decay which existed when…
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