Edmanson v. Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Co.

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

We will consider together the objection that the plaintiff has not set out any particular acts of negligence on the part of the *180defendant as being the cause of the breaking and falling of the electric wire and the failure to allege that the defendant knew or should have known that the wire was broken or fallen down. We consider these two objections together because any allegation of knowledge on the part of the defendant of a broken or fallen wire and the failure to repair the defect after knowledge, would only be material as imputing a specific…