Lindsay v. Glen Alden Coal Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This appeal is from the refusal to take off a nonsuit in an action brought to recover for the death of appellant’s husband.

Lindsay, Pultz and Treverton, all experienced linemen, were employed by the Delaware and Hudson Eailroad Company in repairing telegraph and signal wires on the line of its subsidiary, the Wilkes-Barre Connecting Eailroad Company. On May 18th, after their work for the day was completed, they went on business of their own to Kingston, several miles from their living quarters on the railway. They returned between seven and eight o’clock, and,…