Evans v. Allentown Portland Cement Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, sustaining appellee’s preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer. *596The case arose out of. an industrial accident, in which appellant’s decedent, James M.' Evans, was killed. The complaint alleged that appellee, Allentown Portland Cement Co., had operated -an electrically powered conveyor system'without the safeguards required by law,'- and that the decedent met his death as a result of the unguarded system. It further alleged that because.of the unlawful acts of appellee,…