Bube v. Weatherly Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1904, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Carbon Co., April T., 1901, No. 34, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Adam Bube and Elizabeth Bube, his Wife, v. Weatherly Borough. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s son. Befoi’e Heydt, J. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court refused binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $400. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1904, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Carbon Co., April T., 1901, No. 34, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Adam Bube and Elizabeth Bube, his Wife, v. Weatherly Borough. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s son. Befoi’e Heydt, J. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court refused binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $400. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Oblady, J.,
The plaintiffs in this case recovered a verdict against the defendant for causing the death of their fifteen year old son, which occurred under the following circumstances: David Ziegenfuss was working in the cellar of G. W. Miller’s store in Weatherly when, about six o’clock in the evening, his son, Robert Ziegenfuss, accompanied by Henry Bube and Harold Fortwangler came in. The cellar was lighted by a single incandescent electric light, attached to an insulated wire cord which was wrapped around a nail in a beam, high enough to permit a man of average height to walk…
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