Hauer v. Erie County Electric Co.

Citations

• 51 Pa. Super. 613
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 268

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Presumption—Res ipsa loquitur —Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against an electric lighting company to recover damages for the breaking of a plate glass window by reason of a metal transr forming box falling on the window from the top of a pole on the edge of a sidewalk, the rule of res ipsa loquitur applies, where the evidence shows that at the time of the accident the defendant’s employees were in the act of removing the box from the pole to the ground, but does not show how the box happened to fall.</p>