Foard v. Rath

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 182
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 264

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Licensee—Evidence—Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Where a person, goes into a factory building and enters the office by the ordinary and usual passageway to it, and subsequently after leaving the office goes into a room where he knew he had no right to be, and, in an alleged attempt to reach the office again, walks through an opening-made in the wall and is injured, he cannot recover damages for his injuries from the owner of the factory; and this is the case whether the room was light or dark.</p> <p>In entering or leaving a building, the visitor is bound to use the ordinary and customary place of ingress and egress, and if he adopts some other way he becomes a mere licensee and cannot recover for defects outside of or not substantially adjacent to the ordinary way.</p>