GRAVELY v. PROVIDENCE PARTNERSHIP

No. 76-1686.

549 F.2d 958 (1977)

Harry C. GRAVELY, Appellant, v. The PROVIDENCE PARTNERSHIP, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson L. Kiser, Martinsville, Va. (Young, Kiser, Haskins & Mann, Martinsville, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Murray H. Wright, Richmond, Va. (McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The problem here is the responsibility of an architect to a hotel guest in Virginia injured in a fall on the spiral stairway in his suite of rooms, allegedly caused by fault in the architect's design of the stairway and the adjacent area and in his supervision of its construction. The complaint in the guest's action against the architect here declared both in negligence and in warranty.

Holding that under the law of Virginia...

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