Murphy v. Hughes
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the case (No. 79 to September Term, 1897),to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained April 29, 1897, by reason of an accident resulting from the negligence of the defendant company in employing an incompetent fellow-servant to operate a steam crane.
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Action on the case (No. 79 to September Term, 1897),to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained April 29, 1897, by reason of an accident resulting from the negligence of the defendant company in employing an incompetent fellow-servant to operate a steam crane. The plaintiff alleged that he worked with the said crane operator, and that the work consisted in attaching large rocks, raising them from a given point, swinging them around with the crane and lowering them in position for the construction of a pier. That the said operator was inexperienced and incompetent,…
1Opinion of the Court
Pbnhewill, J.,
Charging the Jury :
Gentlemen of the Jury :—In this case the plaintiff, Nicholas Murphy, seeks to recover from Eugene Hughes, Charles Hughes and Anson Bangs, trading as Hughes Brothers & Bangs, the defendants, damages for personal injuries sustained by him in April, 1897, and. which he alleges were caused by the negligence of the defendants. The plaintiff charges, among other things, that the defendants were negligent in the employment of an incompent servant as engineer, and that by reason of such in.competency he, the said plaintiff, who was at the time acting as an employe or…
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