Campbell v. Northern Pacific R.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, Northern Pacific Eailroad Company and Northern Pacific Beneficial Association, from an order of the District Court of Crow Wing County, Holland, J., made March 5, 1892, overruling their demurrers to the complaint.
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Appeal by defendants, Northern Pacific Eailroad Company and Northern Pacific Beneficial Association, from an order of the District Court of Crow Wing County, Holland, J., made March 5, 1892, overruling their demurrers to the complaint. The plaintiff, Frances M. Campbell, complained that on January 15, 1892, at Brainerd, one John McGregor, a physician, employed by the above-named defendants, did maliciously strike, beat and bruise her, another servant, while both were in the performance of their several duties at a hospital, caring for the injured, brought in from a railroad accident. The…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The defendant Northern Pacific Beneficial Association is alleged in the complaint to be an agency of the defendant railway company for the care of persons injured in the operation of the railroad. The defendant McGregor was one of the physicians and surgeons employed for such purpose, having the charge and oversight of this special service, and was the representative of the association and railway company in and about the same. The plaintiff also alleges that while the defendant McGregor was so in the line and in the course of the discharge of his said duty as such authorized agent and…
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