Groves v. McNeil
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 123, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1906, No. 951, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Catherine Groves v. James McNeil and Brother Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s son. Before Davis, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $4,100. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 123, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1906, No. 951, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Catherine Groves v. James McNeil and Brother Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s son. Before Davis, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $4,100. Defendant appealed. Error assigned among others was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The plaintiff’s son was a structural iron worker in the employ of the defendant, a contractor engaged in building a blast furnace for the Cambria Steel Company. He was killed by the falling of a swinging scaffold on which he was working at the top of the furnace, eighty-five feet from the ground. It was customary to suspend scaffolds by ropes, and the scaffold in use had been suspended by ropes provided by the defendant, but because of the danger of the ropes.being worn and weakened by the edge of the steel structure at the top of the furnace, John Shipman, who had…
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