Gartland v. Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co.

Citations

• 67 Ill. 498

Syllabus

<p>Master and servant—whether employer is liable to servant for negligence of co-servant—minor. Where a minor, while in the service of a railway-company, under an express contract, receives an injury through the negligence of a co-employee in the same line of duty, the company will not be liable to him for such injury. By entering into the employment he takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks incident to the service in which he engaged, among which is the carelessness of his fellow-servants.</p>