Augerstein v. Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No 149 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 382 June Term 1889, C. P. No. 1. On April 26, 1890, a summons was served in trespass brought by Charles Augerstein against Jones & Laughlin, Limited, to recover damages for personal injuries averred to have been caused by the negligence of defendants. Issue.
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No 149 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 382 June Term 1889, C. P. No. 1. On April 26, 1890, a summons was served in trespass brought by Charles Augerstein against Jones & Laughlin, Limited, to recover damages for personal injuries averred to have been caused by the negligence of defendants. Issue. At the trial on April 15, 1890, it was shown that on December 21, 1888, Charles Augerstein, the plaintiff, a locksmith from Germany, was employed by the defendants and put at once to the work of grinding…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION,
Mu. Justice Gbeen:
The plaintiff, being in the employment of the defendants in the service of grinding boxes on an emery wheel, was injured by the bursting of the wheel, and brought this action to recover damages for the injury. The negligence charged against the defendants as the cause of the injury, in the plaintiff’s statement, was: “ That said emery wheel was placed in a plate or rest, which said plate or rest was unsafe, insecure, and dangerous to be used when said emery wheel was in motion, of which the defendants then and there had full knowledge, and of which the plaintiff had…
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