Devlin v. Beacon Light Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 383, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Delaware Co., Dee. T., 1897, No. 25, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 383, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Delaware Co., Dee. T., 1897, No. 25, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Hemphill, P. J. At tbe trial it appeared that about 8 o’clock in the morning of February 9, 1898, plaintiff was injured at Third and Market streets, a much traveled part of the city of Chester, by stepping upon a live electric light wire which had been left on the pavement without guard or warning by defendant’s workmen. At the time of the accident plaintiff was stepping from the crossing upon the pavement. The wire was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Stebrett,
In 1897, two actions of trespass were brought against the de*190fendant company, one by Sarah K. Devlin, by her father and next friend, to recover damages for injuries she sustained by being brought in contact with a live electric light wire which was negligently left upon the sidewalk in the city of Chester by defendant company’s employees while they were engaged in readjusting the wires used for public street lighting, and the other, by her parents, James K. and Sarah Devlin, to recover damages sustained by them in consequence of their said daughter’s…
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