Weaver v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 202 Pa. 620
• 52 A. 30
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 573

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Negligence—Master and servant — Fellow-servant—Act of April 4, 1868, P. L. 58.</p> <p>Where an iron company constructs a siding on its own land, on which the cars of a railroad company are to be operated by the employees of the railroad company, an employee of the iron company who is injured by the negligence of the trainmen of the railroad company, while he is loading a railroad company’s car on the siding of the iron company is a fellow-servant of the trainmen within the meaning of the act of April 4, 1868, and he cannot recover damages from the railroad company for his injuries.</p>