Nardone v. Public Service Electric & Gas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pekskie, J.

Arcangelo Nardone, twenty-nine years of age, husband of the prosecutrix, and father of two minor children, two and five years of age, was employed as a mechanical helper by the respondent, at its Coal street garage, Newark, New Jersey. He also took care of the furnace in the premises. In the performance of his latter duties he was required to go outside the enclosed premises, into the open yard, to obtain coal. A brick stack, approximately two hundred and fifty feet high, is situated about thirty feet from the basement exit of the garage. A…