Sellick v. Pennsylvania Contracting Co.

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 43
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 315

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Vice principal.</p> <p>In an action by an employee against Ms employer to recover damages for personal injuries, the case is for the jury where the testimony of the plaintiff corroborated by two witnesses, but flatly contradicted by two witnesses for the defendant, tends to show that at the time of the accident plaintiff was working in a reasonably safe place with reasonably safe appliances, but that the foreman' who had full charge of fifteen or sixteen men, of whom the plaintiff was one, directed the plaintiff to put hooks on a stick of timber which was to be hoisted, and that while plaintiff was adjusting the hooks, the foreman gave a premature signal to the engineer of the hoisting engine with the result that plaintiff was severely injured.</p>