Cracraft v. Bessemer Limestone Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 123, Oct. T., 1904, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1903, No. 43, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Louis Cracraft v. Bessemer Limestone Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Wallace, P. J. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court refused binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,800. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 123, Oct. T., 1904, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1903, No. 43, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Louis Cracraft v. Bessemer Limestone Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Wallace, P. J. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court refused binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,800. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Potter,
Generally speaking, the duty of an employer to give information to an employee, as to the particular perils and dangers of the service in which he is engaged, is unquestioned. But this duty does not require warning against such dangers as are the subject of common knowledge, or are open and apparent to ordinary observation. In the present case, the plaintiff, more than twenty years of age, had been employed ii> the sawmill of the defendant for more than four months pre> vious to the accident. The saw in use, was a large circular saw, the lower part of which…
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