St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad v. Hedge
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court for Clay county. Tried below before Hastings, J. The facts are stated in the opinion. When the injury happened the persons through whose instrumentality it was inflicted must have been engaged in doing an act for the person sought to be charged with liability. (Wood, Law of Master & Servant, sec. 281 Roddy v. Missouri JP.
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Error from the district court for Clay county. Tried below before Hastings, J. The facts are stated in the opinion. When the injury happened the persons through whose instrumentality it was inflicted must have been engaged in doing an act for the person sought to be charged with liability. (Wood, Law of Master & Servant, sec. 281 Roddy v. Missouri JP. R. Co., 104 Mo., '246; liitte v. Republican V. R. Co., 19 Neb., 620; Meyer v. Midland P. R. Co., 2 Neb., 319; Stevenson v. Chicago & A. R. Co., 18 Fed. Rep., 493.) If subsequent to the original wrongful or negligent act-a new cause has…
1Opinion of the CourtPost, J.
On the 2d day of January, 1890, the defendant in error Mrs. Hedge, at the city of Fairfield, purchased of the plaintiff in error, the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Company (hereafter called the “railroad company”) a ticket good from the station above named to the city of Hastings and took passage on a west-bound freight train which was also accustomed to carry passengers between said stations. When the train in question had reached a point about one mile east from Hastings a stop was made for the purpose of taking on a car loaded with brick then standing on a side track constructed for…
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