Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1888

Maguire v. McGee

Maguire v. McGee
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided April 23, 1888
10 Sadler 171; 13 A. 551; 22 Week. No. 159; 1888 Pa. LEXIS 1057

Maguire v. McGee

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

It is too clear for argument that "McGee cannot be held for the accident which befell John Maguire. The scaffolding was necessarily of a temporary character, erected by the defendant’s employees for their own purposes; and had one of them been injured by it, he could not have recovered from his employer; much less, therefore, can he be held for an injury to a stranger, to whom he owed no duty whatever.

The judgment is affirmed.

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