Geroski v. Allegheny County Light Co.

Citations

• 247 Pa. 304
• 93 A. 338
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 828

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric wires — Insulation—Wires out of reach— Proximate cause.</p> <p>An electric company maintaining heavily charged wires twenty-nine feet from the ground and twelve feet from a building cannot reasonably be held to anticipate that the janitor of such building in attempting to hoist a flag on a pole thereon by means of a copper wire, will manipulate the wire from his position on the ground in such manner as to bring it in close proximity to the electric wires, resulting in a shock, causing his death.</p>