Davis v. Duncan

The question for decision in this cause arises upon defendants’ demurrer to complainant’s bill. The bill in substance ' states and charges that defendant Duncan, in a suit in equity pending in this court, was duly appointed a receiver of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and the property belonging to said company; that, acting as such, he was, on the nineteenth day of January, 1883, engaged by his agents, servants, and employes as a common carrier of passengers for hire over said • road; that complainant was a passenger on one of the trains, having paid his fare to the town of West Point, on said…