Frantz v. Citizens Electric Co.

Citations

• 231 Pa. 589
• 80 A. 1106
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 891

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Exposed wire — Contributory negligence — Question for jury.</p> <p>Where an electric light company for its own convenience attaches a high tension wire, which had sagged from its own pole, to a neighboring telephone pole, with defective insulation at the point of attachment, and thereafter an employee of the telephone company, who has no knowledge of the presence of the wire, climbs the pole and is killed by contact with the wire, the electric light company will be liable in damages for his death, and it cannot claim that the deceased was guilty of contributory negligence in not looking up when he climbed the pole, where all the witnesses with experience in this kind of work testified that he climbed the pole in the usual and proper maimer.</p>