Golien v. Susquehanna Coal Co.

Citations

• 54 Pa. Super. 299
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 59

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Fellow servant — Act of June 10, 1907, P. L. 523 — Engineer—Mines and mining.</p> <p>1. An engineer of a hoisting engine of a colliery, whose sole duty is, in obedience to orders, to move the levers which control the hoisting cage, is the fellow servant of a workman who is injured while in the cage by the negligence of the engineer in throwing the lever the wrong way.</p> <p>2. Such engineer is not a “person engaged as superintendent, manager, foreman, or other person in charge or control of the work,” within the meaning of the Act of June 10, 1907, P. L. 523.</p>