POTANKO v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.


368 Pa. 582 (1951)

Potanko v. Sears, Roebuck & Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Wolf, with him Leon Solis-Cohen, Jr., Alfred L. Wolf, Abraham L. Freedman, Donald B. Hirsch, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen and Sachs & Caplan, for original defendant, appellant.

James J. Burns, Jr., for additional defendants, appellants.

Emanuel Goldberg, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL, LADNER and CHIDSEY, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE LADNER, November 15, 1951:

These appeals arise out of an action brought by John Potanko, a minor, by his father as guardian and by his parents in their own right, against the defendant, Sears, Roebuck & Company, to recover damages for injuries suffered by the minor plaintiff in his own home when a radiator, not yet installed, fell on him. The complaint charged negligence on the part of Sears, Roebuck & Company from whom the radiator...

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