Legal Opinion
Knott Corporation v. Furman
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 16, 1947No. 5589PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment for damages in a negligence case. The plaintiff is Mrs. Mary Hale Furman, a citizen of the State of Massachusetts, who was injured in March 1945 in the course of a fire which damaged the Chamberlin Hotel on the Fort Monroe Military Reservation at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Defendant is a Delaware corporation, having its principal place of business in New York, and was engaged at the time of the fire in operating the hotel. The plaintiff was injured while attempting to lower herself from a fifth story window of the hotel to a roof below…
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