Moore v. Pittsburgh & Butler Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 247 Pa. 126
• 93 A. 167
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 793

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Instructions—Electricity — Street railways — Dangerous appliances.</p> <p>The case was properly submitted to the jury in an action against a street railway company to recover damages for causing the death of plaintiff’s husband, who was killed while working upon the top of one of defendant’s ears, in consequence of an electric shock which caused him to fall therefrom, where there was evidence that the instructions given to deceased with regard to the danger of his work were of the most general character, and did not sufficiently inform him how to avoid necessary dangers from electric wires, and where there was evidence from which the inference could be drawn that defendant’s vice principal turned electric current into the car upon which the deceased was working, when he knew or should have known that deceased would thereby be placed in a position of danger.</p>