Myers v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.

Citations

• 225 Pa. 387
• 74 A. 223
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 670

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Uninsulated wires — Instruction as to danger.</p> <p>A carpenter who has been working under an independent contractor of an electric light company in the company’s establishment for three weeks, cannot recover damages from the company for injuries sustained by coming in contact with uninsulated electric wires in a room of the company’s plant, where it appears that the danger from the wires was an obvious one. In such a case the injured person assumes the risk of the employment. He has no standing to complain that the electric company did not give him instructions as to danger, since it was not to the company, but to his own employer that he was bound to look for instructions.</p>