Legal Opinion

Gerding v. Standard Pressed Steel Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 2, 1908No. Appeal, No. 266PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. é, Phila. Co., March T., 1906, No. 3,729, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Joseph Bernhardt Gerding by his next friend and father, Bernhardt O. Gerding in the right of the said Joseph Bernhardt Gerding, and Bernhardt C. Gerding in his own right v. The Standard Pressed Steel Oompanju Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Oourt.

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Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. é, Phila. Co., March T., 1906, No. 3,729, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Joseph Bernhardt Gerding by his next friend and father, Bernhardt O. Gerding in the right of the said Joseph Bernhardt Gerding, and Bernhardt C. Gerding in his own right v. The Standard Pressed Steel Oompanju Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Oourt. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff, Joseph Bernhardt Gerding for $1,500, and for plaintiff, Bernhardt O. Gerding for $1,200.…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stewart,

The refusal of the court to give binding instructions for the defendant is the subject of the only assignment before us. The action was for negligence. The plaintiff, a boy of fifteen years, was an employee of the defendant company, and was engaged in working about and operating a machine for cutting dies out of metal sheets. He had been so employed for only three or four days before the accident. His employment required him to place the metal sheets upon the stationary lower *231die, and by the nse of a treadle bring the upper die to bear upon the sheets and thus…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Baranski v. WilmsenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  2. Houston v. Budke Stamping Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
  3. William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Bldg. Co. v. WaczakCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1917

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