Clark v. Hughes

Ryan, C.

In the district court of Hall county there was a verdict and judgment against the receivers of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Company in accordance with the prayer of the petition of Ira Hughes, the plaintiff in said court. By their petition in error and their arguments the receivers urge that the petition of Hughes; in which it was alleged that he was injured while making a coupling of the freight train, predicated the liability of the receivers solely on the fact that they were continuing-in their employ the conductor in charge of said train, knowing that he was wholly…