Hill v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Citations

• 81 Kan. 379
• 105 P. 447
• 1909 Kan. LEXIS 374

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY.THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Master and Servant — Defective Appliances — Injury to Employee. In the absence of wanton or intentional wrongdoing an employer who furnishes defective instrumentalities is liable to an employee only when danger would reasonably be apprehended from their use.</p> <p>:2. - Unforeseen Accident. If persons of ordinary caution and prudence would not, in the light of the attendant circumstances, anticipate danger in using a defective appliance, and danger is not a natural and probable consequence of such, use, liability to an employee for negligence in furnishing it does not arise against the employer.</p>