Haack v. Brooklyn Labor Lyceum Ass'n

Gaynor, J.:

The buildings on the defendant’s property were destroyed by fire." The plaintiff and some other boys came upon the premises and were picking up some sort of tickets out of the ruins when one of the walls left standing by the fire fell and hurt the plaintiff. I do not see' how there is any liability in the defendant. The plaintiff was a bare licensee, at best, and the defendant was under no relation or obligation to him whatever, beyond what we are all under not to do any affirmative wrong or injury to one another. This is a principle too well known among us to call for any citation…