Reeser v. Metropolitan Electric Co.

Citations

• 246 Pa. 24
• 91 A. 1043
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 468

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Fellow servant — Common enterprise — Negligence of foreman.</p> <p>1. For the consequences of an accidental slip made by a foreman, while engaged with fellow servants in the performance of manual labor, the employer is not responsible.</p> <p>2. Where a particular act in. which a foreman is engaged at the time of an accident is not a duty whose performance in any way particularly or properly belongs to the master, but on the contrary is on the same level with the work of other employees and amounts simply to co-operating with the rest of the men, the foreman stands upon precisely the same footing with them, end his act cannot be fairly connected with anything in the line of superintendence.</p>