Derrick v. Harwood Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 22, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of G. P. Luzerne Co., Get. T., 1914, No. 2033, for defendant on the whole record, in ease of John D. Derrick & Sons v. Harwood Electric Co. Trespass for damages for burning of plaintiffs’ building. Before Strauss, J. Tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court states tbe facts. At the trial the jury failed to agree and were discharged.
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Appeal, No. 22, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of G. P. Luzerne Co., Get. T., 1914, No. 2033, for defendant on the whole record, in ease of John D. Derrick & Sons v. Harwood Electric Co. Trespass for damages for burning of plaintiffs’ building. Before Strauss, J. Tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court states tbe facts. At the trial the jury failed to agree and were discharged. Subsequently defendant moved for judgment in its favor on the whole record as provided by the Act of April 20,1911, P. L. 70. The court granted the motion and entered judgment for defendant. Plaintiffs appealed.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Walling,
Early in the year 1913, plaintiffs completed the erection and equipment of a two-story frame mill building, at Jeanesville, Luzerne County, for the conversion of anthracite coal into a powder known as “facing”; and made a contract with the defendant corporation to furnish them sufficient electric current for two 30-horse power motors. Defendant conveyed the electricity to a pole, 200 feet from plaintiffs’ mill, on primary wires carrying a voltage of 2,200, and there passed the current through a transformer, by which it was reduced to 220 volts, and thence…
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