Brislin v. Kingston Coal Co.

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 234
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 216

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Dangerous employment.</p> <p>When the work which an employee is set to do, may be done in different ways, one of which is dangerous, but which experience has taught may be safely done in another manner, then the inexperienced employee is entitled to instruction as to the way in which it ought to be done.</p> <p>In an action by a boy fourteen years old against his employer, a mining company, to recover damages for personal injuries, the case is for the jury, and a judgment and verdict for the plaintiff will be sustained whero it appears that a month before the accident, plaintiff had been placed at work without previous experience, in keeping coal moving in chutes, that this work while dangerous was not so obviously dangerous as to deter a prudent person from doing it, and that the evidence as to whether the plaintiff had been properly instructed was contradictory.</p>