United States Third Circuit

A property owner's common law responsibility duty to detect and correct latent structural defects does not follow from the duty to maintain and repair, and where plaintiff lacks another reasonable route of entry into the building where injury occurred, plaintiff does not assume the risk of injury.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2000
• Decided 03/09/2001
• Published 03/09/2001

Judges

• CUDAHY, Circuit Judge., Before McKEE, ROSENN, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas P. Bracaglia (Argued), Frank S. Nofer, Kelly, McLaughlin & Foster, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Appellants/Cross-Appellees., Carl D. Buchholz, III (Argued), Thomas A. Kuzmick, Michael A. Meehan, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.