Clader v. Gangewere

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 174
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 129

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Safe place to work — Varying changes — Contributory negligence — Bisk of employment.</p> <p>A master is required to furnish suitable materials to construct a runway or scaffolding on which his employee is required to work, and if through a vice-principal he assumes the work of constructing it, he must do so in such manner as to make it safe for those who work about it; but where he has once constructed it, and the workmen, or other unauthorized persons see fit to make changes in the construction, the master is not bound to follow up these various changes.</p> <p>Where an employee sees an obvious and dangerous defect in' a runway on which he is obliged to work and calls his foreman’s attention to it, and the latter says that he will see it fixed, and the employee on going to his work two days afterwards sees that nothing has been done to remedy the defect, but nevertheless resumes his work, and is injured by reason of the defect, he will be held to assume the risk and cannot recover from his employer for the injuries which he sustained.</p>