Legal Opinion
Jones v. Southern Pac. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1906No. 1,535Published
In Error to the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
1Per curiam
In Hale v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 120 Fed. 735, 57 C. C. A. 149, this court said that:
“In the Supremo Court of the state of Louisiana, the liability of an employer to an employe for damages resulting from negligence of a co-employe or fellow servant is considered a question of general law and not controlled by any express statute.”
We have been cited to no decisions of the Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana that change our views in this respect. The most favorable construction to be given to the latest decisions of that court is *974that it holds that the common-law doctrine in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. BaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Weaver v. W. L. Goulden Logging Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
- Parker v. Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
- Fuller v. Tremont Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
- Hale v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1903