Betz v. Winter & Goetz

Citations

• 195 Pa. 346
• 45 A. 1068
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 640

Syllabus

<p>NègZigence-Mc~ster and servant-Machinery-Nonsu~t.</p> <p>In an action by a boy sixteen years old against his employer to recover damages for personal injuries, a nonsnit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the plaintiff had operated the macbine at which ho was injured for five or six months; that he bad been instrncted by his predecessor in the work to which he was assigned; that the condition of the machine was the same when he received his injury as when his predecessor operated it; that the danger in working the machine was obvious, tbat the injury could have been avoided by a temporary suspension of the operation of the machine, and that there was notlnng in the case which authorized aa inference that tbe defendant failed in any respect to discharge the duty of furnishiug a reasonably safe machine.</p>