Long v. Greenough Red Ash Coal Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 120 and 121, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept, T., 1912, No, 194, on verdiet for plaintiff in case of Isaac Long, in his own right and as father and next friend of Richard Norman Long, a minor, v. Greenough Red Ash Coal Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Appeals, Nos. 120 and 121, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept, T., 1912, No, 194, on verdiet for plaintiff in case of Isaac Long, in his own right and as father and next friend of Richard Norman Long, a minor, v. Greenough Red Ash Coal Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Moser, J. At the trial it appeared that on December 5, 1911, that plaintiff, then seventeen years of age, was injured while employed in defendant’s coal mine while engaged in stopping a mine car. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Kephart, J.,
It is the duty of the employer to instruct an inexperienced employee, who is assigned to new duties in an unfamiliar part of a mine, and to warn him of the dangers incident to said employment and how to avoid them: Bogdanovicz v. Susquehanna Coal Co., 240 Pa. 124. “Although a servant be fully conscious of the danger incident to the discharge of a duty in a particular way as if he had been expressly warned of the danger, it does not necessarily follow that his employer is relieved of the duty to instruct him further. Thqre may be two modes in which the duty can be…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Bogdanovicz v. Susquehanna Coal Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
- Sheetram v. Trexler Stave & Lumber Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Kearns v. Carnegie Steel Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911