Finan v. Sutch

Citations

• 220 Pa. 379
• 69 A. 817
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 788

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Plasterer—Scaffold.</p> <p>A master does not insure his own employees against each other, nor is he bound to supervise or direct every detail of their labor. They must exercise their own senses in the selection of material out of the mass provided for them and must use their own judgment in the handling and use of it.</p> <p>A plasterer cannot recover from his employer damages for personal injuries sustained by the breaking of a board in a scaffold on which he was working, where it appears that the board broke because of a knot in it; that the employer had furnished an abundant supply of good lumber for the construction of the scaffold; and that the scaffold had been built by journeymen plasterers under a rule of their organization, which required them to construct scaffolding for their own use. In such a case the plasterers who built the scaffold were fellow servants of the man who was injured.</p>