Cox v. City of Philadelphia

Citations

• 165 F. 559
• 1908 U.S. App. LEXIS 5411

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (§ 762*) — Responsibility fob Defects in Streets— Work of Independent Contractor.</p> <p>The fact that a city kept an inspector on the ground where a contractor for a street railroad company was working, who pointed out what ho deemed dangerous places made in the streets by the work, for the protection of persons using the streets, but who had no power to interfere with the contractor or direct its employes, did not, render the city liable as a principal for an injury resulting from an excavation or depression caused in a street by the contractor.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Municipal Corporations, Cent. Dig. §§ 1605, 1606; Dec. Dig. § 762.*]</p>