Mooney v. Yeagle

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

William J. Mooney was found dead, sitting in a trench, eighteen inches deep, outside, but very near to, a house in Wyncote. His business there was to fit a four inch iron soil pipe, which extended through the cellar wall, into a terra cotta sewer pipe laid in the trench, and cement the joint. He had come, a short while before, from the cellar of the house, where he had fitted the soil pipe in the house into the other end of this iron pipe and caulked the joint with melted lead. He had come with his employer, Yeagle, to the house about forty-five minutes before his death.…