Gillen v. Rowley

Citations

• 134 Pa. 209
• 19 A. 504
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 691

Syllabus

<p>In an action to recover for personal injuries charged to the defendants’ negligence, the plaintiff’s testimony showing that, being about thirteen years of age, he was employed by the defendants in a work neither difficult nor dangerous, but was injured while voluntarily interfering with a machine in the exclusive charge of another employee and undertaking to do something not within the scope of his employment, it was not error to direct a verdict for the defendants.</p>