Smallwood v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Citations

• 215 Pa. 540
• 64 A. 732
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 842

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Fellow servant — News agent — Act of April 4,1868, P. L. 58..</p> <p>An agent of a news company employed to sell papers, fruit and confectionery on railroad trains, and permitted to ride thereon by virtue of a contract between the railroad company and the news company, is in the position of an employee of the railroad company within the meaning of the first section of the Act' of April 4, 1868, P. L. 58, and if he is killed by the negligence of an employee of the railroad company, no recovery can be had for his death. ■ .</p>