Holliday v. Booth & Flinn, Ltd.

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 147
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 376

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Contributory negligence — Falling over line of water pipe.</p> <p>Where a firm of contractors engaged in raising a grade of a street by a fill, lay a line of water pipe for the purpose of their work along the sloping surface of the fill, and the people in the neighborhood for their own convenience and for the purpose of avoiding a detour around a block or two, make a path along the fill and over the water pipe, and a woman who .was perfectly familiar with the path and had helped to make it, walks along the path and over the water pipe on a very dark night, and trips and falls over the pipe and is injured, she is guilty of contributory negligence, and cannot recover damages from the contractor for her injuries.</p>