Walton v. Bryn Mawr Hotel Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 151, July T., 1893, by plaintiff, Abel Walton, from judgment of C. P. Montgomery Co., Dec. T., 1891, No. 10, entering nonsuit in favor of defendant. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Weand, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit, and subsequently refused to take it off. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The plaintiff, a carpenter, was injured while at work on the *5defendant’s hotel building during its construction by a fall from the fifth story. Some men were at work drawing up heavy joists which were piled up on the fifth story and a lintel crossing the corridor gave way at one end and let down the floor, and the plaintiff and two others fell and were injured. There was some evidence that the tiles or hollow bricks of which the partition walls were built, on which the lintels rested, were not as strong as they should be, but whether the lintel gave way on this account, or because…
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