Lehigh Valley R. v. Delachesa

The only assignment of error which it will be necessary to consider is whether the trial judge erred in refusing to diíect a verdict for the defendant upon the ground that it was not responsible for the acts of the men by whose fault the plaintiff was injured. The plaintiff, an employé of a firm of stevedores, was injured while unloading iron from a car standing on a sidetrack of the Uchigh Valley Terminal Railroad Company, at the dock of that company at Jersey City. It was undisputed that if the accident was caused by negligence, other than that of the plaintiff or his co-employés wholly or…