Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. v. Albey

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. The petition alleged that plaintiff, an employe of the Wheeling Steel Corporation as an electric welder, was temporarily engaged in building a shed on his employer’s premises over which defendant, without notice or warning, maintained too close to plaintiff and his fellow workmen an unguarded high-tension wire carrying a heavy voltage of electricity, as a result whereof plaintiff was seriously injured by an eleetric current conveyed from said wire into his body by a ladder which, while plaintiff was using it, came into…