Emmick v. Hanrahan Brick & Ice Co.

Van Kirk, J.:

The deceased, Henry Emmick, was a carpenter. While engaged in his regular occupation in a shed at a brick-kiln, assisting his boss, Mr. Mottes, in taking measurements of parts of the shed, he was killed by lightning. There was a twisted wire cable which was looped around the rafters at the peak of the shed and passed therefrom down on either side to the large timbers or bedplates which supported the opposite sides of the shed. The deceased was standing on bricks within two or three feet of one of the cable ends; while Mr. Mottes was standing within a similar distance from the…