Sweatman v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 71, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1915, No. 2632, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Catharine C. Sweatman v. Pennsylvania R. B. Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Rogers, J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for |3,500. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in discharging defendant’s motion for judgment n. o. v.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Kephart,
The deceased was employed as a foreman in charge of riveters by Gibbs & Hill, contractors, who were engaged by the appellant to construct its electrification system on its main line from Broad Street Station to Paoli. The work of the contractors as it related to the foreman’s duties was located between Eighteenth and Twentieth streets and consisted in the building of foundations for signal towers. The railroad between Broad and Twentieth streets is elevated and the foundations were outside the line of the elevated structures and below the level of the tracks. The…
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