Reilly v. Philadelphia Suburban Gas & Electric Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

While in defendant’s employ on July 31, 1923, plaintiff’s husband, James P. Beilly, was fatally injured, and this appeal by her is from a judgment of nonsuit entered in an action brought for damages thereby sustained.

For many years the defendant, Philadelphia Suburban Gas & Electric Company, maintained a plant at West Chester for the generation of electricity, wherein it had a number of coal burning boilers set in brick walls. Early in the year 1923, it decided to replace two of the boilers with oil burning furnaces. In making this change defendant removed the…