Madara v. Pottsville Iron & Steel Co.

Citations

• 160 Pa. 109
• 28 A. 639
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 776

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Safe appliances — Contributory negligence — Risk of employment — Proximate cause.</p> <p>In an action by a father to recover damages for the death of a minor son, it is proper to submit the case to the jury where there is evidence that the boy was killed while working on a dangerously narrow platform, and that his father had complained to the superintendent of the danger, and had only refrained from removing his son by the promise of the superintendent that another workman should be substituted in the boy’s place.</p>