Reeve v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 82 Wash. 268
• 144 P. 63
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1514

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servants — Employers’ Liability Act — Negligence op Fellow Servants — Acts Outside Employment. Under the Federal employers’ liability act, intended to render an employer engaged in interstate commerce liable to an employee injured in the course of his employment by the careless and negligent acts of other employees, a carrier is not liable to an employee who sustained a fall while in the course of his employment, by reason of the negligent acts of fellow servants, who were wrestling and scuffling in the car; since the statute contemplates liability for negligent acts of others only when such negligent acts occur while they were doing some act required in the prosecution of the carrier’s business.</p>