Haynie v. Foremost Dairies Inc.

1. “Except in case of railroad companies, the master shall not be liable to one servant for injuries arising from the negligence or misconduct of other servants about the same business.” Code, § 66-304. The term “vice-principal,” as used in the fellow-servant law, includes any servant who represents the master in the discharge of those personal or absolute duties which every master owes to his servants; such duties being often referred to as the non-assignable duties of a master. Among those duties of the master are, providing machinery and appliances, the place to work, the inspection and…