Swartz v. Bergendahl-Knight Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 100, Oct. T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1915, No- 62, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Ella J. Swartz v. Bergendahl-Knight Company, an Illinois corporation. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Carnahan, J. Verdict for plaintiff for $5,400 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in refusing defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
This is an action of trespass brought by Ella K. Swartz to recover damages for the death of her husband who was killed by the breaking of a scaffold upon which he was working while in the employ of the defendant company.
The plaintiff’s husband was a structural steel worker and riveter, and, on March 16, 1915, while he was engaged in assisting in the erection of the structural iron and «teel frame of the William Penn Hotel in the City of Pittsburgh, one of the two needle beams in the scaffolding on which he and other employees were working broke, causing the…
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