Minnuci v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, in his declaration, alleges that while he was engaged, as an employe of the defendant company, in assisting to unload certain coal cars at the company’s chutes, at Port Reading, he had his hand run over and crushed by one of its cars.

He then avers that the defendant company negligently failed to provide him with a safe place in which to work; that it negligently permitted the place where he was working to become unsafe and dangerous; that it negligently failed to provide and enforce a safe system for doing the work…