44 Ga. App. 609 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1932
It seems to be the uniform and universal holding of all the courts that a member of a city fire department enters the premises of another in the exercise of his duty as a licensee, under permission given him by law (45 C. J. 794, § 200), and the decisions of the courts agree that the owner of the premises assumes no duty to the licensee except to refrain from acts of wilful and wanton negligence. See, in this connection, Woodruff v. Bowen, 136 Ind. 431 (34 N. E. 1113, 22 L. R. A. 198) ; Gibson v. Leonard, 143 Ill. 182 (32 N. E. 182, 17 L. R. A. 588, 36 Am. St. R. 376) ; Beehler v. Daniels, 18 R. I. 563, 29 Atl. 6, 21 L. R. A. 512, 49 Am. St. R. 790) ; Burroughs Adding Machine Co v. Fryar, 132 Tenn. 612 (179 S. W. 127, L. R. A. 1916-B, 791, 792); Lunt v. Post Printing & Publishing Co., 48 Colo. 316 (110 Pac. 203, 39 L. R. A. (N. S.) 60, 21 Ann. Cas. 492) ; Hamilton v. Minneapolis Desk Mfg. Co., 78 Minn. 3 (80 N. W. 693, 79 Am. St. R. 350) ; Litch v. White, 160 Cal. 497 (117 Pac. 515); Brennan v. Keene, 237 Mass. 556 (130 N. E. 82, 13 A. L. R. 629). It can not be said that the maintenance of an open staircase “well” on the premises, leading from the outside into the basement of the defendant’s building, which was in no way concealed from
The court did not err' in sustaining the general demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.