Goldberg v. R. Grier Miller & Sons, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

The plaintiffs — Harry, Benjamin and William Goldberg- — owned a one-story warehouse in West Chester, standing hard by a two-story garage owned by R. Grier Miller and Sons, Inc., which leased the second floor to the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation. The garage building rose some 13 feet above the crest of the plaintiff’s warehouse.

On March 20, 1958, the roof of the garage building collapsed, exerting such a downward force against the eastern wall of the building that it disintegrated, avalanching bricks, beams, trusses and debris on the plaintiffs’…