Cox v. Shaffer

Opinion

Per Curiam,

Glenn Cox, an employee of Agway, Incorporated, died on May 3, 1970 from asphyxiation when overcome with lethal fumes after entering a silo through a hatch in the top. The silo had been constructed for Agway in January, 1970, by Donald Shaffer, d/b/a Shaffer Construction Co.

Suit was thereafter instituted against Shaffer by the Administratrix of Cox’s Estate, the Complaint alleging that Cox had fatally suffocated from lack of oxygen and charging negligence of defendant in design and construction of the silo in that it did not provide for ventilation of air and also charging…