Wood v. Diamond Electric Co.

Citations

• 185 Pa. 529
• 39 A. 1111
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 746

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Contributory negligence — Electricity—Death—Nonsuit.</p> <p>In au action against an electric light company to recover damages for death, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the deceased had placed a wire screen around the side of his photograph gallery near defendant’s electric wires; that one of defendant’s wires, which had lost part of its insulating material, had chai’ged the screen with electricity ; that deceased, upon being informed that another person who had come in contact with the screen had been killed, deliberately touched the screen to demonstrate that those who asserted that it was charged wore mistaken.</p>