Stasch v. Cornwall Ore Bank Co.

Citations

• 19 Pa. Super. 113
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 41

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Mines and mining — Blasting by dynamite.</p> <p>In an action by parents against a mining company to recover damages for the death of their son resulting from alleged negligence in blasting, theoase is for the jury, and a judgment and verdict for plaintiffs will be affirmed, where the evidence tends to show that the man whom defendant employed to direct the blasting and to notify employees of the blasts did not notify the deceased, that this person came to the defendant with the reputation of being careless and reckless in blasting, and that frequent complaints of his carelessness had been made by other employees to the general superintendent of the defendant.</p>