Rank v. Metropolitan Edison Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

Lizzie M. Rank, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, brought this action against Metropolitan' Edison Company to recover damages under the Wrongful Death and Survival Acts, alleging that her husband’s death was caused by the defendant’s negligence. This appeal is from the lower court’s decree denying plaintiff’s motion to take off the compulsory nonsuit entered at the trial.

By virtue of a right-of-way agreement defendant in 1931 erected and thereafter maintained a line for the transmission of electricity across one of the fields of a farm in…