Weller v. Aberfoyle Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 102
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 144

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — -Master and servant — Machinery—Duty of inspection.</p> <p>An employer’s duty to his servant requires him to be as alert in inspecting his machinery and repairing defects as he is in making a proper selection of newo machinery, and this duty is a direct and continuing one from which nothing but performance will relieve him.</p> <p>A woman injured while working under a machine may recover damages from her employer where it appears that the accident was due to a neglect of proper supervision'which permitted a pin to work out of its place in the machine, and exposed the employee to a danger which she could not have noticed, and made her working place an unsafe one.</p>