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· 7/13/1917

Farbarik v. Jones

Citations

  • 67 Pa. Super. 517
  • 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 446

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Infants—Fall of heavy object on child while playing in school yard.</p> <p>In an action against a contractor for installing heating apparatus in a public school, a recovery may be had for injuries to a child seven years old, where the evidence tends to show that the defendant left standing in the school yard which was used as a playground, three radiators, each of large size, and weighing almost six hundred pounds, in such a manner that each radiator stood on its narrow base upon a sloping pavement so that it was liable to be thrown over by children while playing about it,' and that one of the radiators fell and injured the child in question while he and three other children were playing around it.</p>

Judges: Head, Henderson, Kephart, Orlady, Portee, Porter, Trexler, Williams

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