Argersinger v. Commonwealth Power Co.

The defendant is engaged in the production, transmission, and sale of electric power of high voltage, in various cities, villages, and rural districts in this State. It employs several gangs of men in the reconstruction and repair of its system of poles and wires. These gangs are called “wire” or “line gangs.” They are in charge of men called by some witnesses superintendents and by others foremen. Each superintendent or foreman of a line gang has an assistant called an “assistant foreman.” It matters little what the man in charge of the gang is called. The practice was that he went with the…