Veit v. Class & Nachod Brewing Co.

Citations

• 216 Pa. 29
• 64 A. 871
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 557

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Explosion in brewery — Evidence—Contributory negligence— Previous act.</p> <p>In an action against a brewing company to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband resulting from an explosion caused by some unknown person tampering with the steam appliances of the brewery, it is reversible error for the court to admit evidence to the effect that the deceased himself had on a previous occasion tampered with the steam appliances for the purpose of hastening his work in filling beer barrels, where there is no evidence in the case whatever to connect the deceased with the act which was the immediate cause of the explosion.</p> <p>It is an established rule applicable alike to civil and criminal inquiries that the commission of the act charged cannot be proved by showing a like act to have been committed by the same person.</p>