Flynn v. Union Bridge Co.

The master is not an insurer to the servant of the safety of appliances which he provides for his use, and, where the latter is injured by the use of defective appliances thus furnished, he must *531show negligence on the part of the master, or else he cannot recover. Latent defects in such appliances are not ordinary risks of employment which the servant assumes, because he has a right to assume that the master, in his superior knowledge, has provided such instruments to carry on his business, as are reasonably safe, secure and sufficient for that purpose. But latent defects are such, as the…