Handschuh v. Albert Development

BROSKY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after post trial motions were denied. Appellant raises several contentions of error regarding the court’s failure to instruct the jury on the defense of assumption of the risk, error in instructing the jury on agency and error in molding the verdict. We affirm.

The facts of relevance indicate that appellee’s decedent was a plumbing contractor engaged in the task of installing a residential sewer line for appellant, Albert Development, at the site of a house being built by appellant, when he was killed in a trench cave-in accident. The job…