McGuigan v. Beatty

Citations

• 186 Pa. 329
• 40 A. 490
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 1003

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Defective appliances — Elevator.</p> <p>Iu an action by an employee against his employer to recover damages for personal injuries, the case is for the jury whore the evidence shows that plaintiff's duties were to carry goods from the first to the second story by means of an elevator which had no bell attached ; that on the day of the accident he looked up the elevator to ascertain whether or not any person was using it, when a weight of thirty pounds, connected with an automatic gate on the fourth floor, fell, striking the plaintiff on the head, and inflicting severe injuries; that the rope which held the weight had not been replaced by any new rope during six months preceding the accident, and was in a rotten condition ; that the block which would, or might, have prevented the fall of the weight had been long absent from its place, and there was no proof that defendant had ever inspected the rope.</p>