Baird v. Pettit
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 58, to July Term 1871. This was an action on the case brought February 29th 1868, by William Pettit against Matthew Baird, Charles T. Parry and George Burnham; a number of others were originally named as defendants, all whose names were stricken from the record.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 58, to July Term 1871. This was an action on the case brought February 29th 1868, by William Pettit against Matthew Baird, Charles T. Parry and George Burnham; a number of others were originally named as defendants, all whose names were stricken from the record. The declaration alleged that the defendants were owners and possessors of a building in Broad street, Philadelphia; that being so possessed of the same, they negligently allowed dirt and rubbish to be thrown out of it upon the street in front thereof; that plaintiff was passing along…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 4th 1872, by
Williams, J.
The plaintiff below was employed as drafts*482man in the works carried on by the defendant for the manufacture of locomotive engines. On the evening of the 15th of November 1865, after the hands had quit work, he left the building where he was employed, and was on his way home, when he fell over a pile of dirt and rubbish on the sidewalk in front of the premises, a few feet from the steps of the building, which had been thrown out in deepening a cellar, and left on the pavement, and in falling received the injury for which…
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