Baur v. Mesta MacHine Co.

405 Pa. 617 (1961)

Baur, Appellant,

v.

Mesta Machine Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued October 3, 1961.

December 29, 1961.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.

Clyde E. Donaldson, for appellant.

Henry E. Rea, Jr., with him Brandt, Riester, Brandt & Malone, for appellees.

Thomas Lewis Jones, for amicus curiae.

OPINION BY JUSTICE ALPERN, December 29, 1961:

This Court decided in Baur v. Mesta Machine Co., 393 Pa. 380, 143 A. 2d 12 (1958) that when an employer voluntarily provides a first aid room and administers to ill as well as injured employees, it has the duty to…