Weaverling v. Thropp

Citations

• 237 Pa. 163
• 85 A. 90
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 909

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Unguarded machinery — Contributory Negligence — Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries a verdict and Judgment for plaintiff will be sustained where it appears that plaintiff was an all around laborer at defendant’s furnace, that having finished the work he was engaged in, he went to the furnace building to eat, that while he was passing an uncovered and unguarded section of a metal trunk in the floor in which a screw shaped shaft revolved, he was asked by a fellow workman to hand him a hose, and while doing this he stepped into the trunk, which on his testimony was hid from view by steam and dust, and was injured.</p>