BOWSER et ux. v. ARTMAN et al.


363 Pa. 388 (1949)

Bowser et ux. v. Artman et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.A. Heilman and Harry C. Golden, for appellants.

E.O. Golden, with him W.A. Ashe and Robert E. Ashe, for appellees.

Before MAXEY, C.J., DREW, LINN, STERN, PATTERSON, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE DREW, November 14, 1949:

At dusk on August 14, 1945, while a V-J Day celebration was taking place in the Borough of Ford City, Armstrong County, a third-floor fire escape on defendants' apartment building collapsed. Ruth A. Bowser, who had been standing on a balcony with one foot on the platform of that fire escape, plunged to the sidewalk and received crippling injuries. Ruth Bowser and Orlo Bowser, her husband, plaintiffs, brought this action...

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