Citizens' Gas & Electric Co. v. Nicholson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action to recover for personal inj'uries, the evidence in which was substantially as follows: The plaintiff, while chief of the fire department of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was being driven rapidly along the east side of First street in the nighttime, in response to an alarm of fire, when the vehicle in which he was riding- came in contact with a pile of freshly excavated earth, thereby throwing him out and injuring him. The vehicle was driven by a fellow fireman, who was under the plaintiff’s direction and control. During the preceding day the defendant,…
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