Cook v. Southern Railway Co.

This case is “on all fours” with Pierce v. B. Go., 124 N. G., 63. It was there humanely held that a “trespasser’s wrongful act in getting on a car does not justify making him get off in a manner calculated to kill or cripple him.” Also, that “a railroad company is responsible for injury caused by the wrongful act of its employee, while acting in the general scope of his employment, whether such act is wilful, wanton and malicious, or merely negligent.” That case cites numerous authorities (pages 93 and 94), for instance, where the carrier was held liable for a servant “employed to sweep up…