Lindsay v. Baltimore & Ohio Rd.

Railroads are not primarily liable for the negligence of postal employees. They are in no sense servants or employees of the railroad. The only ground upon which the railroad is held liable for their acts is that they travel on the railroad’s cars, and by reason of that fact have it in their power, by dangerous practices, to injure those who may lawfully be in close proximity to the railroad, and to whom the company owes a duty of exercising ordinary care to protect from injury by reason of the passage of its trains, and that the railroad has without objection suffered such mail clerks to…