Heinrich v. Pittsburg Railways Co.

Citations

• 36 Pa. Super. 612
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 213

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Disposal of dead body — Undertaker—Street railways — Inspectors — Principal and agent.</p> <p>Where a person is killed .on the track of a street railway, and the line is blocked by reason of the difficulty of disposing of the body, an inspector of the company whose duty it is to keep the line open, has authority to contract with an undertaker near at hand to take and bury the body at the company’s expense.</p> <p>If in such a case the imdertaker before incurring the expense of actual burial, informs the superintendent of the company of the arrangement made with the inspector, and the superintendent tells him to go ahead, the company will be deemed to have ratified the act of the inspector.</p>