Lewis v. Louisville Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

In August, 1919, there was a strike of the employes of the Louisville Railway Company and the president of *656the company ’phoned to Reed & Company in' Chicagu to .send him two or three hundred men to operate the street cars in Louisville during- the strike. Reed &r Company gathered up two or three hundred men, put them on the train and had them in Louisville in about twenty-four hours. Some of them were competent to operate cars; many were not and did not know for what they were to be used. Among- the latter was the plaintiff, Joseph Lewis.…