Wilbert v. Weicht

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 361

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Dangerous machine — Failure to repair — Gontinuance at work.</p> <p>A workman is entitled to recover damages from his employer where it appears that he was struck in the eye by a button hurled from a button cutting machine in the employer’s factory; that at the end of the day prior to the accident he had complained to the foreman that the machine was not working right, and that he would not work at it; that he was notified that the machine would be fixed; that on the following morning he was told that the machine had been fixed, and that he could start to work; that shortly after-wards the accident happened; and that there was no guard on the machine, although such an appliance was practicable and used in other factories.</p>