Rumovicz v. Scranton Electric Co.

Citations

• 44 Pa. Super. 582
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 224

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric light company — Contact with wire — Trespass— Judgment n. o. v.</p> <p>No recovery can be had against .an electric light company for injuries to a boy eleven years old resulting from contact with an electric wire, where it appears that the defendant maintained a building on an uninclosed lot between fifteen and twenty-five feet from a road; that in the building near the road a wire ran along the wall just inside a window, the sill of which was two feet from the ground; that some time prior to the accident the glass had been broken by boys throwing stones; that the defendant had done nothing to permit or invite anyone to enter the building; and that the injury to the plaintiff could have been caused in no other way than by the plaintiff thrusting his hand through the broken glass and touching the wire which caused his injury.</p>