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    1) Helen Camechi and Elick Camechi appealed a judgment in favor of the defendant A.T. Newell Realty Company and William Beck in a personal injury case. 2) Camechi was injured when the porch collapsed as she stepped on it while leaving the home of the defendant's tenant. 3) The district court thoroughly examined Pennsylvania law on a landlord's responsibility for failure to make repairs and concluded that a tenant's guest does not have a right of action against the landlord. The appellate court affirmed the district court's judgment.

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    Filed: 1960-02-15 Precedential Status: Precedential Citations: 276 F.2d 958 Docket: 13049_1

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    1) Helen Camechi and Elick Camechi appealed a judgment in favor of the defendant A.T. Newell Realty Company and William Beck in a personal injury case. 2) Camechi was injured when the porch collapsed as she stepped on it while leaving the home of the defendant's tenant. 3) The district court thoroughly examined Pennsylvania law on a landlord's responsibility for failure to make repairs and concluded that a tenant's guest does not have a right of action against the landlord. The appellate court affirmed the district court's judgment.

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    1) Helen Camechi and Elick Camechi appealed a judgment in favor of the defendant A.T. Newell Realty Company and William Beck in a personal injury case. 2) Camechi was injured when the porch collapsed as she stepped on it while leaving the home of the defendant's tenant. 3) The district court thoroughly examined Pennsylvania law on a landlord's responsibility for failure to make repairs and concluded that a tenant's guest does not have a right of action against the landlord. The appellate court affirmed the district court's judgment.

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    276 F.

    2d 958

    Helen CAMECHI and Elick J. Camechi, Appellants


    v.
    A. T. NEWELL REALTY COMPANY and William Beck.
    No. 13049.

    United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.


    Argued Feb. 4, 1960.
    Decided Feb. 15, 1960.

    John M. Wolford, Erie, Pa., for appellants.


    John G. Gent, Erie, Pa. (Curtze & Gent, Erie, Pa., Robert J. Healy,
    Bradford, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.
    Before GOODRICH, HASTIE and FORMAN, Circuit Judges.
    PER CURIAM.

    This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendant in a personal injury case.
    The plaintiff was a guest in the home of the defendant's tenant. She received
    injury when a porch collapsed as she stepped on it in leaving the house.
    Jurisdiction is based solely on diversity of citizenship as the plaintiff is a
    Californian and the defendant a Pennsylvania corporation. The accident took
    place in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania law governs. The responsibility of a
    landlord for failure to make repairs was thoroughly discussed by the district
    judge in his examination of the Pennsylvania decisions on the subject. He came
    to the conclusion that there was no right by the tenant's guest against the
    landlord. We can add nothing to the district court's discussion of the
    Pennsylvania authority. D.C.W.D.Pa., 181 F.Supp. 334.

    The judgment will be affirmed.

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