O'Rourke v. O'Rourke

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Decedent, an employee of his father, one of defendants, was engaged as assistant foreman of men wrecking a building located at Allegheny and Westmoreland streets, in the City of Philadelphia. At the end of the day on which deceased was injured, he left the place at which he had been working, accompanied by Reilly, the foreman, for the purpose of collecting an indebtedness due his father by a contractor whose place of business was several blocks distant. While proceeding on that mission deceased and Reilly were attacked by two intoxicated men and, in the struggle…