Wright v. Northampton & Hertford Railroad

Citations

• 29 S.E. 100
• 122 N.C. 852
• 1898 N.C. LEXIS 362

Syllabus

<p>Action for Damages — Master and Servant — Fellow-Servants — Conductor and Engineer — Section-Master-—Passengers.</p> <p>1. A conductor of a train is not a vice-principal of a section-master in the employment of the company, since the latter is not subject to the orders or commands of the former. ;</p> <p>2. A locomotive engineer, who also acts as Conductor of a train, is a fellow-servant of a section-master of the same company to whom is-accorded the privilege of riding on trains to and from his place of labor.</p> <p>3i A section-master who, after his day’s work, rides on a train to his lodging place without paying or being^expected to pay his fare, is not a passenger.</p>