Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Collins

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal presents, for the first time, to the appellate court of Kentucky, a new and unsettled question, involving the legal liability of railroad companies for damages resulting to an inferior from the negligence of a superior employee, while engaged in different spheres of employment in the common service of any sneb corporation.

The appellee, while employed by the Louisville and Nashville railroad company, as a common laborer, in loading and unloading its burthen cars engaged in carrying for its road cross-ties and iron, was required,…