{ "id": 1396974, "name": "Holden v. Carmean", "name_abbreviation": "Holden v. Carmean", "decision_date": "1928-11-19", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "375", "last_page": "377", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "178 Ark. 375" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "1 S. W. (2d) 77", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "175 Ark. 988", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1403416 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/175/0988-01" ] }, { "cite": "59 L. R. A. 421", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "L.R.A.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "65 N. 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W. 293", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "124 Ark. 599", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": 0 } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 344, "char_count": 4746, "ocr_confidence": 0.479, "pagerank": { "raw": 2.6982159888612467e-07, "percentile": 0.828187087355286 }, "sha256": "b29fc1b0fed025fe31a105a2087209e6b6df235f521d293b9d4461b216fa2fa2", "simhash": "1:9ee2b5bcc42ac0cc", "word_count": 846 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:48:05.944247+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Holden v. Carmean." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Smith, J.\nAppellee Rogoski owns a portion of the lot forming the southeast corner of Markham and Pulaski Streets, in the city of Little Rock, and appellant owns the remainder. Some years ago the city opened up Pulaski Street so that it ran at a right angle into Markham Street, and in so doing it became necessary to excavate Pulaski Street to lower it to the grade of Markham. Little Rock v. Holden, 124 Ark. 599, 186 S. W. 293. The case cited involved the identical property here in litigation.\n\u2022 The excavation of Pulaski Street left the lot owned by .Rogoski and appellant, about ten feet above the grade line of. Pulaski Street... Rogoski, desiring to improve his. portion of the lot, lowered it to the grade line of Pulaski Street, and in so doing appellant\u2019s part of the lot was left about ten feet higher than that of Rogoski\u2019s part. It is said that this condition itself damaged appellant\u2019s property, and that she should have damages on that account. Damages were also claimed to compensate the injury alleged to have been inflicted upon appellant\u2019s portion of the lot by the manner in which the excavation was done, and suit was brought against both Rogoski and the independent contractor who did the work.\nThe trial court held that the mere excavation of. the Rogoski part of the lot conferred upon appellant no cause of action, and we concur in that view. Rogoski had the right to excavate his property to the grade line of the streets, and if appellant was injured thereby it was, so far as Rogoski was concerned, damomm absque injuria. Appellant has had her day in court when she sued the city for damages resulting from changing the grade line of Pulaski Street. Little Rock v. Holden, supra.\n. It does not follow, however, that, because Rogoski had the right to- excavate his lot to the grade line of the street, he could do this work or have it done in a negligent manner. The lot was composed of rock, which had to 'be broken up before it could be removed, and dynamite was employed for that purpose.\nAppellant requested an instruction reading as follows:\n\u201cYou are instructed that dynamite is a highly dangerous article or instrumentality, and any one using it in a crowded city for blasting is required to use more than ordinary care. The one so using it is required to use the utmost care to prevent injury to property of others. If you find from the evidence that defendant failed to use the utmost care in the use of the dynamite in this case, then you must return a verdict for the plaintiff.\u201d\nThe court refused this instruction, and gave one which imposed the duty only to exercise ordinary care.\nThere was a verdict and judgment in favor of Rogo ski and his contractor who did the work, and who were jointly sued, and this appeal is from that judgment.\nWe think the instruction set out above should have been given. In the case of Rafferty v. Davis, 214 Pa. 244, 103 Atl. Rep. 951, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said:\n\u201cWe have several times said that extreme care must be observed in the use of so dangerous a substance as dynamite\u2019. In Sowers v. McManus, 214 Pa. 244, 245, 63 Atl. 601, the present Chief Justice said that the general rule in cases of the explosion of dynamite, where third parties having no relation to the person having it in possession are injured, is that the highest degree of care must be exercised\u201d (Citing oases).\nCases cited in a note to 11 R. C. L., page 657, chapter \u201cExplosions and Explosives,\u201d and 25 C. J., page 195, chapter \u2018 \u2018 Explosives, \u2019 \u2019 support the stat\u00e9ment of the law approved by. the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and quoted above.\nThe instructions of the court did not limit plaintiff\u2019s recovery to injury occasioned by substances cast upon the lot by the explosives, but allowed a recovery, if the defendants were liable at all, for the damage caused by the concussion of the air or of the earth, and this was correct. Fitzsimmons & Connell Co. v. Braun & Fitts, 199 Ill. 390, 65 N. E. 249, 59 L. R. A. 421.\nThe court charged the jury when and under what circumstances Rogoski would be liable for the negligence of the independent contractor employed by him to excavate the lot. The instructions on this subject were not objected to by either side, and appear to conform to the law as declared in the recent case of Stout Lbr. Co. v. Reynolds, 175 Ark. 988, 1 S. W. (2d) 77.\nNo error appears in the record, except the failure of the court to charge that the highest degree of care should have been employed in the- use of the dynamite, but the judgment must be reversed for this error, and it is so ordered.", "type": "majority", "author": "Smith, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Dillon, & Robinson and S. S. Jefferies, for appellant.", "S. L. White and Snodgress & Snodgress, for appellee.'" ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Holden v. Carmean.\nOpinion delivered November 19, 1928.\nDillon, & Robinson and S. S. Jefferies, for appellant.\nS. L. White and Snodgress & Snodgress, for appellee.'" }, "file_name": "0375-01", "first_page_order": 393, "last_page_order": 395 }