Beehler v. Daniels, Cornell & Co.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case. Certified from the Common Pleas Division on demurrer to the declaration.
1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover for injury caused by falling into an elevator well in the defendants’ building’, which he entered in the discharge of his duty, as a member of the fire department of the city of Providence, in answering a call to extinguish a fire. The negligence alleged in the first count is a failure to guard and protect the well; and in the second count such a packing of merchandise as to guide and conduct one to the unguarded and unprotected well. The defendants demur to the declaration, alleging as grounds of demurrer that they owed no duty to the plaintiff; that he entered…
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- Woodruff v. BowenIndiana Supreme Court · 1893
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