Court Opinion

ID: 9764712
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:37:40.504238+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:00.967623
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Musmanno:
I believe that Hill v. Allentown Housing Auth., 373 Pa. 92, filed March 23, 1953, overrules in principle *535Scibilia v. Philadelphia, 279 Pa. 549, handed down March 10, 1924. I believe further that the facts in several of the cases enumerated in the Hill decision do not go as far as those in the case at bar in supporting liability for a purely proprietary function and operation.
I am also of the opinion that if a municipal corporation is liable for damages sustained in the creation or maintenance of a nuisance while collecting, removing and disposing of garbage, (Briegel v. City of Philadelphia, 135 Pa. 451,) it is equally liable in the negligent operation of an incinerator plant consuming and destroying garbage collected in the city.
For these reasons and those which naturally flow from them, I dissent.