Greer v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 25 — PETITION ORDINARY — ■1. One entering service is presumed to understand the business and to be able to transact it with experience and skill, and he can not be heard to complain that he did not have the experience and skill. (Alexander v. Lou. &'Nash. R. Co., 83 Ky., 589; Bogensehutz v. Smith, 84 Ky., 330; Derby’s Adm’r v. Ky. Cent. R. Co., 9 Ky.
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Case 25 — PETITION ORDINARY — ■1. One entering service is presumed to understand the business and to be able to transact it with experience and skill, and he can not be heard to complain that he did not have the experience and skill. (Alexander v. Lou. &'Nash. R. Co., 83 Ky., 589; Bogensehutz v. Smith, 84 Ky., 330; Derby’s Adm’r v. Ky. Cent. R. Co., 9 Ky. Law Rep., 153; Ray v. Joffvus, 86 Ky., 367.) 2. A servant can not recover of the master for the negligent acts of a co-servant, unless that co-servant was his superior in the prosecution of the business resulting in the injury. And among…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRXGG
delivered the opinion of the court.
James Greer, as plaintiff in tlie lower court, brought this action against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for negligently driving its car or cars upon and over his leg, crushing it in such manner as to cause its necessary amputation, and alleging that by reason of the defendant’s negligence, plaintiff lost his left leg, and endured great mental and physical suffering, &c., to his damage in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. He recovered the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars. Thereupon the defendant prosecuted an…
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- Lou. & Nash. R. R. v. MitchellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1888
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. CollinsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1865
- L. & N. R. R. v. MooreCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1886
- Cincinnati, R. v. BarkerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1893
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