Aument v. Pennsylvania Telephone Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 200, Oct. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from order of O. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1904, No. 55, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Edgar G. Aument v. The Pennsylvania Telephone Company. Trespass for the killing of a horse. Before Landis, P. J. The facts relating to the accident are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Hrror assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
A single set of poles erected on the east side of Christian street in the city of Lancaster carried the wires of the Pennsylvania Telephone Co., the defendant, and, fifteen feet below them, the wires of the Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Co. On the afternoon of February 21, 1902, during a severe sleet storm, which had prevailed for the greater part of the day, a wire of the telephone company broke, and fell across a wire of the electric light company, the end lodging in a pool of water in the gutter. There was evidence from which a jury could have found, if the…
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