Hofnagle v. . N.Y. Cen. H. River R.R. Co.

The relations of a corporate body to its employes, have been of late much considered in this court. (Laning v. N.Y. Cent.,etc., Co., 49 N.Y., 521; Flike v. Boston Albany R.R. Co., decided Nov. 11, 1873.)* It needs not that they be further discussed in the abstract, in this case. It will suffice that certain of the principles asserted or recognized in the late cases, be applied to the facts in this.

The plaintiff's intestate in his lifetime filled the place of a servant to the defendant, and it was his master. The duty which it owed to him, was to place beside him and over him competent…