Howell v. Amerson

Eberhardt, Judge.

1. Where plaintiff’s husband sought to borrow a used electric drill from the defendant, which he had purchased approximately two months before, oh which defendant installed a new plug for connecting to the electric current and informed the husband that he might have it, warning “It will shock you,” but thereafter in the husband’s presence tested it himself on a steel table or drum, receiving no shock from its operation, and then handed it to the husband saying “It didn’t shock me; it’s O.K.,” no actionable negligence appears on the basis of a “failure to warn” of the danger…