Win & Son, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia

MEMORANDUM

MCHUGH, Judge.

This case arises out of the City-ordered demolition of a warehouse building that Plaintiffs were using at the time to store imported art and artifacts.1 It raises a unique issue about the duty, if any, owed by a demolition contractor to the owner of a condemned property. The facts of the case are set forth in a prior Memorandum, available at Win & Son, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia, 162 F.Supp.3d 449, No. 13-5977, 2016 WL 538213 (E.D.Pa. Feb. 11, 2016). For present purposes, the central fact is that the property in question had been deemed imminently dangerous by the…