Best v. Williamsport Staple Co.

Citations

• 218 Pa. 202
• 67 A. 205
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 481

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — ■Master and servant — Dangerous machine — Voluntary exposure to danger — Nonsuit.</p> <p>Where a man twenty-three years of age employed for three weeks in a harness factory at a machine for pressing pieces of leather, attempts to clean the rolls while they are in motion, and is injured by doing so, his action in unnecessarily and voluntarily exposing himself to manifest danger, will relieve his employer from all liability for his injuries.</p>