Bier v. Standard Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANT FROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 172 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 291 October Term 1888, C. P. No. 2. s. On September 1, 1888, John Bier brought an action of trespass against the Standard Manufacturing Company. Issue.
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANT FROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 172 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 291 October Term 1888, C. P. No. 2. s. On September 1, 1888, John Bier brought an action of trespass against the Standard Manufacturing Company. Issue. At the trial on May 16, 1889, it was shown that the plaintiff was employed by the defendant company as a common laborer, and that on June 8,1887, while working in defendant’s manufactory, moving wares from the ground floor to the fourth floor by means of an elevator, in use by him for the first time, he went with…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Curiam :
The jury have found that the defendant'company was guilty of negligence in not providing a safe elevator. It is not a case in which we can say there was not sufficient evidence of negligence to submit to them; hence the verdict and judgment must stand, unless there was error in the rulings of the court.
A careful examination of the specifications fails to convince us that such is the case. The defendant’s seventh point could not have been properly affirmed. The court was asked to say that unless the defect in the machinery was known to the defendant corporation, the plaintiff could…
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