Matlack v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Maxey,

June 30, 1933:

At about 11 a. m., November 3, 1930, James R. Mat-lack, husband of the plaintiff, while pursuing the regular course of his employment as a painter for the State Highway Department, was painting the top girder at the third cross-arm from the east end of the bridge crossing the Juniata River near the Borough of Newport, Perry County. At that time the appellee owned and maintained high tension electric wires on that bridge, carrying them on cross-arms fastened to the girders on the south side of the bridge. Matlack while painting came in contact with…