Gilbert v. Elk Tanning Co.

Citations

• 221 Pa. 176
• 70 A. 719
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 461

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Vice principal — Safe place to work— Superintendent of tannery.</p> <p>The duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work and to maintain it in a reasonably safe condition by inspection and repair is a direct, personal and absolute obligation from which nothing but performance can relieve an employer, and the person to whom it is delegated becomes a vice principal whose neglect is the neglect of the employer.</p> <p>Where the superintendent of a tannery removes a plank covering a vat containing hot liquid, and as a result a workman in the employ of the tannery while pushing a car slips on the greasy tracks and falls into the open vat and is killed, the question of the negligence of the tannery company is for the jury.</p>