Nixon v. Pfahler

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

These appeals by plaintiffs are from the trial court’s refusal to take off a compulsory nonsuit in an action by husband and wife for personal injuries to the latter. The defendant, Dr. George E. Pfahler, has offices in Philadelphia where he and his assistants are engaged, inter alia, in taking and developing X-ray photographs. The wife plaintiff, Mrs. Sarah F. Nixon, while having X-ray photographs taken of her teeth in defendant’s offices on March 2, 1920, was injured by an electric spark which struck her right knee and passed down and out at her foot.…