Drake v. Union Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 2 Idaho 487
• 21 P. 560
• 1889 Ida. LEXIS 13

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Rote of Damages. — Where a fireman upon a locomotive engine in discharge of his duty, with full knowledge of the nature and extent of the dangers of the service he is engaged in, or has the means of being informed of such facts and conditions by the exercise of ordinary care, ’voluntarily assumes such risks, and is thereby injured, and the employees are guilty of no laches or misconduct unknown to the servant, or which with ordinary care he might have known, he cannot recover for such injury.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>