Legal Opinion

Hinds v. Overacker

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1879PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Erom the LaPorte Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtPerkins, J.

The appellee sued the appellant, to recover compensation in damages for an injury he sustained through the alleged negligence of the latter.

Judgment below for the appellee for one thousand dollars.

This case originated in the disaster described in Hinds v. Harbou, 58 Ind. 121.

The appellee was an employe in the building mentioned in said desci'iption, and was injured by its fall.

It-was contended in this, as it was in that, case, that an action would not lie by one servant against a co-servant in the same undertaking; but it was decided in that case that such an action would lie, in a proper…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hinds v. HarbouIndiana Supreme Court · 1877

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Osborne v. MorganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
  2. Rogers v. OvertonIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  3. Hare v. McIntireSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1890
  4. Steinhauser v. SpraulSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893

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