Stoiber v. Independent Brewing Co.

Citations

• 230 Pa. 210
• 79 A. 416
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 591

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant- — Inexperienced employee — Dangerous place to work — Vice principal — Death—Brewing company.</p> <p>In an action against a brewing company to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained where the evidence shows that the deceased at the direction of the brewing master, a vice principal, went inside a tub to varnish it; that the deceased had no experience in varnishing and was ignorant of the dangerous conditions surrounding him; that when the deceased began to varnish the inside of the tub there was a lighted stove in the bottom of .it; that the brewing master told the deceased and a coemployee to keep the stove lighted until they reached the bottom in varnishing; that the brewing master knew that it was dangerous to varnish the inside of the tub with a lighted stove in it; and that the death resulted from an explosion in the tub caused by the lighted stove.</p>