Keeling v. Harrison Bros.

Citations

• 256 Pa. 555
• 100 A. 1051
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 657

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — -Master and servant — Instructions—Danger not obvious — Defective appliances — Customary devices — Case for jury.</p> <p>1. Where in an action to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s eye resulting from the explosion of a metal ball which plaintiff was endeavoring to test with compressed air, it appeared that the method employed was to attach the ball to an air pressure pipe for the introduction of compressed air; that plaintiff had been given no instructions as to the proper and safe way to make such tests; that the pipe to which plaintiff attached the ball had no reducing valve to reduce or control the pressure of the air, although such device was customarily used in establishments such as defendant’s, and that the accident was caused by the excessively high pressure of the air, the danger of which was not obvious, the ease was properly submitted to the jury and a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff was sustained.</p> <p>Practice, Supreme Court — Assignments of error.</p> <p>2. Assignments of error which fail to state the page where the matter referred to is to be found in the paper book or appendix are defective.</p>