Huntsinger v. Trexler

Citations

• 181 Pa. 497
• 37 A. 574
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 573

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Bailroad—Fellow servant — Fmployment of incompetent servant.</p> <p>In an action by a brakeman against his employer to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the negligence of the conductor of a log train upon which plaintiff was employed, a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff will be sustained, where the evidence tended strongly to show that the conductor was a manifestly incompetent servant for the duties he had to perform, and that the fact of his ineompetency was known or ought to have been known to the defendants when they employed him as conductor.</p>