Fort v. Union Pac. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
1Opinion of the Court
DILLON, Circuit Judge.
In support of the motion for a new trial, it is urged by the defendant’s counsel that the court erred in that portion of the second division, its charge to the jury commencing with, “But I draw this distinction,” and ending with the words, “for, in such a case, they are not, in any proper sense, ‘fellow servants’ in the same common service.” I fully appreciate the difficulties that surround the question here presented, and I do not feel certain that this particular case can be discriminated from those in which it is held that the com- | mon employer of two servants is…
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