Hickey v. Caldwell

Citations

• 221 Pa. 545
• 70 A. 855
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 529

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Fellow servant — Vice principal— Foundry.</p> <p>Where two owners of a foundry have no practical knowledge of the business, and delegate to a workman the absolute control and management of the foundry and of the employees engaged in constructing molds and making castings, with power to employ and discharge the men, such employee becomes a vice principal, and if he is negligent in permitting a mold to be used in casting before it is sufficiently dry, and when it is in an unfit and dangerous condition, and a workman is in consequence injured, the owners of the foundry are liable to the workmen for the injuries sustained.</p>