Everett v. Citizens' Gas & Electric Co.

Citations

• 228 Pa. 241
• 77 A. 460
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 462

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light companies — Live wire — Contributory negligence — Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against an electric light company to recover damages for the death of plaintiS’s wife caused by an electric current passing through a wire clothesline with which the deceased came in contact, no recovery can be had where the evidence shows that the deceased or someone acting for her attached the clothesline in her yard to one of defendant’s poles and a guy wire in the alley back of the yard, and that a cross arm carrying an electric wire broke, causing the wire to come into contact with the guy wire, and thus communicating the current to the clothesline.</p>