SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. v. RAHN

No. 122.

132 U.S. 518 (1889)

SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. RAHN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 23, 1889.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Grosvenor Lowrey and Mr. Joseph S. Auerbach, for plaintiff in error, submitted on their brief.

Mr. W.P. Clough, Mr. John W. Willis and Mr. Charles A. Ebert, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.

The general rules that must govern this case are undisputed, and the only controversy is as to their application to the contract between the defendant company and Corbett, the driver, by whose negligence the plaintiff was injured.

A master is liable to third persons injured by negligent acts done by his servant in the course...

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