Van Vleet v. Public Service Co.

Redick, District Judge.

Action under the workmen’s compensation act. The defendant and appellant is engaged in the manufacturing and distributing of illuminating gas in the city of York. The deceased, Frank M. Van Vleet, was in the employ of de fendant as a gas-man, his duties consisting in a general wa> in looking after the gas distribution, capping mains, and installing the gas service in residences and places of business, and in making repairs. On November 1, 1921, while making a connection with one of the gas mains of the defendant, and down in a hole in the ground about two and one-half…