Goehrig v. Stryker
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Action by widow for death of husband by alleged negligence of defendant, and verdict for plaintiff for $8,830. Binding instructions for defendant having been refused, a rule for judgment non obstante veredicto was taken.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBARD, District Judge.
The plaintiff’s husband was killed while endeavoring to rig a block and fall to the top of a gin pole for use in the construction of a building, of which the .defendant was contractor. He was an expert “rigger,” and the duties in which he was engaged, while hazardous, were perfectly familiar to him. The pole was equipped with a sling at the top, into which to hook the blocks, which were drawn up to it by a light rope called a leader line, passing ov'er a pulley, and were held in place by it while the rigger inserted the hook in the sling. The defendant was not present…
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