Elliott v. Allegheny County Light Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 90, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1901, No. 323, on verdict for defendant in case of James Elliott v. Allegheny County Light Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. . The court charged as follows : [The proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was his fall from the ladder, and not his grasping the wire in' the line of his fall.
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Appeal, No. 90, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1901, No. 323, on verdict for defendant in case of James Elliott v. Allegheny County Light Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. . The court charged as follows : [The proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was his fall from the ladder, and not his grasping the wire in' the line of his fall. The negligence of the defendant, if any, was intervening, but not a proximate cause of the accident. For this reason we direct…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Potteb,
The appellant, while engaged as a painter, fell from, or with, a ladder that slipped from its proper position, while he was using it. In the effort to save himself he reached out, while in the act of falling, and clutched at an electric light wire, which was supported from brackets at the side of the building. It is claimed that this wire was not properly insulated, and for that reason the appellant was shocked and burned, and was possibly thereby prevented from mitigating the force of his fall.
At the close of the testimony, the trial judge gave binding…
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