Houck v. Webster

Citations

• 67 Pa. Super. 199
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 371

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Infant—Injuries by fire — Open lot.</p> <p>The act of an owner of a vacant city lot in granting permission to another person to dump waste material into excavations in the lot so as to bring the ground to established grades of streets, will not render the owner liable for injuries to a child from burns received while playing on the lot, where it appears that a 'third person who was neither an employee or agent of the owner, nor of the person to whom the dumping privilege had been granted, dumped pitch on the lot and set fire to it, without taking any precaution to guard from injury the boy who was playing in the immediate vicinity of the fire.</p>