Devlin v. Snellenburg

Citations

• 132 Pa. 186
• 18 A. 1119
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 789

Syllabus

<p>1. One who paints an advertisement of his business upon the wall of a building belonging to another, at the time under lease to a tenant, is not relieved from liability to the landlord by the fact that the tenant -consented thereto.</p> <p>2. Where the wall is injured, the injury is an injury to the reversion, and the owner thereof may have his action on the case [or the statutory action of trespass] therefor: Ripka v. Sergeant, 7 W. & S. 9; Schnable v. Koehler, 28 Pa. 181; Mclntire v. Coal Co., 118 Pa. 108.</p> <p>3. The defendant having admitted the trespass and a verdict for actual damages having been found, an instruction to the jury that “ no matter what conclusion you come to in the ease, the plaintiff is entitled to your verdict,” was not reversible error.</p>