Ridgeway v. Sayre Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 60, Jan. T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 119, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Elsie E. Ridgeway v. Sayre Electric Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Maxwell, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $5,000 and judgment thereon.
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Appeal, No. 60, Jan. T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 119, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Elsie E. Ridgeway v. Sayre Electric Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Maxwell, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $5,000 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. were answers to points, instructions to the jury, in refusing to direct a verdict for defendant and in refusing to enter judgment for defendant n. o. v. The Bell Telephone Company was a joint…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Fbazeb,
Plaintiff sued to recover damages for the death of her husband caused by his . coming in contact with a defectively insulated wire belonging to defendant company, while he was engaged in inspecting a cable of the Bell Telephone Company, his employer. The trial resulted in a verdict for plaintiff and judgment thereon, from which defendant appealed.
The Bell Telephone Company and the Sayre Electric Company, the defendant, by mutual agreement, together used a line of poles for carrying their respective wires, the upper ten feet of the poles being allotted to the…
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