Edmundson v. Monongahela Light & Power Co.

Citations

• 223 Pa. 93
• 72 A. 268
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 482

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Contributory negligence — Nonsuit.</p> <p>Where a person desiring to communicate with the superintendent of a light and power company on business, goes, not to the office of the company, but to a transformer room where the superintendent is engaged, and where there is nothing in connection with the room to invite entrance by the public, and the superintendent when addressed tells his caller to wait a minute, and the latter, in order to avoid some workmen, backs without looking, against a piece of machinery and receives an electric shock, he has no standing to recover from the company damages for his injuries.</p>