Hollis v. Widener

Citations

• 228 Pa. 466
• 77 A. 819
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 510

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Fellow servant — Steam vessels— Engineer and oiler — Admiralty.</p> <p>1. In the absence of direct authority to represent the owner, the chief engineer of a vesselis the fellow servant of an oiler.</p> <p>2. An oiler on a steam yacht who is injured by slipping on an alleged defectively guarded platform and who admits that he voluntarily continued to work on the platform after he knew from experience that it was dangerous is not entitled to recover against the owner of the vessel by reason of a promise to “fix” the platform given to him by the engineer.</p>