Honor v. Albrighton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1878, No. 195. Case by John Honor against John Albrighton and others, doing business -as Albrighton, Roberts & Co., to recover damages for injuries to the minor son of the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendants.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1878, No. 195. Case by John Honor against John Albrighton and others, doing business -as Albrighton, Roberts & Co., to recover damages for injuries to the minor son of the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendants. It appeared at the trial, that Edward Honor, the minor son of the plaintiff, was, in 1871, employed at the defendants’ coal breaker at Plymouth, Luzerne county, as a slate-picker. In breaking coal it is passed through rollers and broken into the various sizes required for use, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered' March 22d 1880,
2Per curiam
The Act of March 3d 1870, ought to have a liberal .but reasonable construction. In providing that the machinery in and about the mines and coal breakers “ shall be properly fenced off,” it evidently intended merely proper protection. Then, to protect the opening into which the plaintiff fell, a fence, in its literal sense, would not have been as efficient protection as the board used to cover the opening. In providing this cover, the employer did his whole duty under the act. If that cover was unnecessarily removed without his…
3Cited by6 opinions
- Denver & R. G. R. Co. v. NorgateCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- Wagner v. Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Maki v. Union Pac. Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
- Strawbridge v. Bradford, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1889
- Snyder v. Longmead Iron Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
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