Reed v. Norristown Electric Light & Power Co.

Citations

• 223 Pa. 591
• 72 A. 1045
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 584

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Master and servant — Lineman— Failure to wear gloves — Nonsuit.</p> <p>Where a lineman in the employ of a telephone company works on a pole on which are stretched wires of the telephone company and high tension wires of an electric light company, and is injured by a shock received from a telephone wire charged from a high tension wire, he is properly nonsuited in an action against the electric light company, if it appears that he failed to wear gloves while descending the pole, and that the charging of the telephone wire was due to no improper or negligent construction by the electric light company, but was due to an improper arrangement of the wires by the telephone company.</p>