Alexander v. Pennsylvania Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 91, Oct. T., 1901, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1899, No. 87, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Abraham Alexander v. Pennsylvania Water Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before McClung, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned among others was (8) in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
Abraham Alexander, the plaintiff, was the engineer in charge of appellant’s pumping plant at Wildwood station, on November 3,1897, when he was injured by an accident.
The plant consisted of two compound duplex pumps placed in a well about twenty-three feet deep and thirty to thirty-five feet in diameter. A cast iron elbow connecting one of the pumps with the force main leading to the reservoir, about 600 feet above the pumping plant, had been cracked some time before, and it became necessary to replace it with a new one. On the afternoon before the accident,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Shafer v. Lacock, Hawthorn & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Zahniser v. Pennsylvania Torpedo Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Reese v. Clark, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1892
- Snodgrass v. Carnegie Steel Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
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