Tallulah Falls Railway Co. v. Taylor
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from Rabun superior court—Judge J. B. Jones. September 1, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Luke, 'J.
1. Under the employer’s liability act of this State (Civil Code of 1910, § 2782), a railroad company is liable in damages to its section foreman for an injury resulting in whole or in part from' the negligence of a member of a crew of employees who, as subordinates, work under such foreman as a vice-principal, both the foreman and the subordinate employee being at the time of the injury engaged in the work for which they were respectively employed, unless it is further made to appear that the injury was brought about by the foreman’s own carelessness amounting to a failure to…
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