Byrne v. Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co.

Lively, Judge:

Defendant owns and operates an electric power plant and is a public service utility furnishing light and power to the inhabitants of the town of Sutton, and elsewhere. The opera tion of its machinery has caused a vibration of the dwelling house of plaintiff's decedent situated 450 feet away from the generating plant. The principal and substantial damage to the house as a dwelling is. that the vibrations make it uninhabitable as such preventing sleep and repose. Some damage of little consequence, resulted from alleged loosening of the joints, breaking of window panes, loosening…