Morrison v. South Penn Oil Co.

Citations

• 247 Pa. 263
• 93 A. 351
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 819

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Inadequate tools — Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from the breaking of a gin-póle with which plaintiff and others were engaged in taking down an iron derrick, the case was for the jury, where there was evidence that the plaintiff was in defendant’s employ, and was working under the superintendence of defendant’s foreman, that the gin-pole was inadequate and the method of taking down the derrick adopted by the foreman unusual, and more dangerous than the ordinary method, and that the foreman took no proper means to ascertain the adequacy of the gin-pole for the service required of it.</p>