Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. Morris

Citations

• 67 Ill. 295

Syllabus

<p>Services—liability of railway company to pay for services performed at request of their agent. Where the conductor of the defendant railway company brought a brakeman, who had received a serious injury whilst in defendant’s service, to the plaintiff’s house, to be caved for, and immediately after telegraphed to the officers of the company the facts, and they never notified the plaintiff of their intention that the company should not be responsible: Held, in an action by the plaintiff against the company, that the company was liable to pay the plaintiff what his services were reasonably worth.</p>