Vanordstrand v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 86 Wash. 665
• 151 P. 89
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1045

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injuries to Servant — Vice Principal— Acts Outside Scope of Employment. A railway call boy, instructing a new call boy in tbe matter of his duties in calling a train crew in town about one mile distant up tbe track, acts outside tbe scope of bis employment, and not as a vice principal, when be directed tbe new boy to jump on a train going to tbe town and to jump off while tbe train was in motion, where call boys were prohibited by rule from riding upon trains and tbe yard foreman bad particularly cautioned tbe new boy against jumping on or off trains in going to town.</p> <p>Same — Fellow Servants — Federal Employers’ Liability Act— Scope of Employment. Tbe Federal employers’ liability act making employers liable to their employees for tbe negligence of fellow servants, applies only to acts of tbe fellow servants done in tbe scope of their employment.</p> <p>Same — Fellow Servant — 'Supervision Over Work. A fellow servant does not become a vice principal because, for tbe moment, be assumes to give directions as to tbe method of doing tbe work.</p>