Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. Direct writ of error to determine the jurisdiction of the District Court to retain a case removed from a state court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was an action by an employee against his employer and a coemployee to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff by reason, as was alleged, of his conforming to an order or direction negligently given to him by the co-employee and to which he was bound to conform. The injuries were sustained in Alabama and the action was brought in a court of that State. The employer’s liability was based on an Alabama statute, Ala. Code, 1907, § 3910, cl. 3, and that of the coemployee on the common law. The complaint was in a single count and treated the defendants as jointly liable.
In due time the…
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