Reading City v. Reiner
Citations
- 167 Pa. 41
- 31 A. 357
- 1895 Pa. LEXIS 859
Syllabus
<p>Negligence — Opening in sidewalk — Liability of landowner — Landlord and tenant.</p> <p>Where a person is injured by falling into a dangerous opening in a sidewalk on premises in the possession of a tenant, the owner of the property is liable for the injury, where it appears that the dangerous opening was in existence before and at the time of the execution of the lease, and continued in the same condition to the time of the accident.</p>
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “We decline, however, to find that the act of setting up a booth at a weekly flea market constitutes customary engagement in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business under Section 4(1)(2)(B) of the Law.”
- “We decline, however, to find that the act of setting up a booth at a weekly flea market constitutes customary engagement in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business under Section 4(l)(2)(B) of the Law.”
- “The Law is clearly not insurance for individual business undertakings.”
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Judges: Dean, Fell, McCollum, Mitchell, Williams
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