Phelan Et Ux. v. Armstrong Cork Co.
This text of 127 A. 835 (Phelan Et Ux. v. Armstrong Cork Co.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Wm. F. Phelan, the son of plaintiffs, an employee of third parties, was engaged as an iron worker on a stairway which adjoined the elevator shaft of a building in the course of erection by defendant company. Phelan, desiring to summon the elevator, put his head into the shaft to call the operator and was struck by the descending weights, receiving injuries from which he subsequently died. We agree with the court below in saying the “facts show that defendant was not guilty of negligence, and that plaintiffs’ decedent was guilty of contributory negligence.”
The refusal to remove the nonsuit is affirmed.
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127 A. 835, 282 Pa. 285, 1925 Pa. LEXIS 614, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/phelan-et-ux-v-armstrong-cork-co-pa-1925.