Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co.

This case involves an important question of trial practice. It was an action brought by Fillippon, a citizen of Italy ánd a subject of the King of Italy, against the Slate Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, doing business in that State, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by'plaintiff while in the employ of defendant, due as alleged to the negligence of defendant’s foreman or superintendent under whom plaintiff was working. The grounds of negligence alleged were the failure to furnish a reasonably safe place for the work, failure to warn plaintiff of latent dangers of the…