Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Adams

Zollars, J. —

Appellee brought this action to recover damages resulting from a personal injury received upon appellant’s road. The following, partly a summary, and partly a copy, is as much of the complaint as needs to be set out, viz. :

In 1881, appellee, then under twenty-one years of age, was in the employ of appellant as a section hand, and in no other or *154different capacity. While thus employed, he was “ ordered by Patrick Clary, a person standing towards plaintiff in the relation of superior in the employ of defendant,” to get upon and go with a construction train, and perform such service…