Beehler v. Daniels, Cornell & Co.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for personal-injuries. Certified, from the Common Pleas Division on demurrer to the declaration. See 18 R. I. 563, for a report of this case, when it was previously before the court.
1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.
The declaration in this case, as originally framed, charged 'the defendants with negligence in failing to guard an elevator well, whereby the plaintiff, a fireman in the discharge of his duty, fell and was injured. A demurrer to this declaration was sustained upon the ground that it set forth an entry by the plaintiff into the defendants’ premises only as a licensee, to whom the defendants owed no duty; 18 R. I. 563. The declaration is now amended and the third count avers that Pub. Laws R. I. cap. 688, § 25, 1 of April 12, 1878, commonly known as the Providence Building Act, requires…
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