G., H. & S. A. R'y Co. v. Lempe

Willie, Chief Justice.—

Lempe was an employee of the appellant, whose duty it was to work in the “ bridge gang.” After being engaged in bridge work for twenty days, he, together with the remainder of the gang and their foreman, went to Flew Philadelphia to fix a well. He had never worked on a well before, and worked on this one by order of his foreman. This well was one used -by the railroad company to get water for its engines. It had been out of repair for a month or more and the curbing had begun to fall in. Lumps of dirt fell in every day, and about three feet from the surface the well had…