Bradbury v. Kingston Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 193, Jan. T., 1893, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1889, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff, Rowena Bradbury. Trespass for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Rice, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 193, Jan. T., 1893, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1889, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff, Rowena Bradbury. Trespass for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Rice, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows : “ The employer is bound to furnish machinery and appliances that are of ordinary character and reasonable safety, and the former is the conclusive test of the latter; whatever is, according to the general use, the ordinary course adopted by those in the same business is reasonably safe within…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
The plaintiff’s husband lost his life by falling down the vertical shaft of a coal mine operated by the defendant. The manner and occasion of his fall were thus: He and two others, all of them workmen in the employ of the defendant, stepped upon the cage used for the purpose of lowering the men to the mine. When they had descended a few feet, the engineer at the mouth of the shaft, discovering that he had lost control of the throttle valve, undertook to stop, and did stop, the further descent of the cage. In order to do this he pulled the reverse lever for the…
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