NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD v. HAMBLY

No. 187.

154 U.S. 349 (1894)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. HAMBLY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James McNaught, Mr. A.H. Garland, and Mr. H.J. May for plaintiff in error.

Mr. S.L. Glaspell for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The third question certified to this court, and the only one it is necessary for us to consider, involves the inquiry whether the plaintiff Hambly and the conductor and engineer of the passenger train were, either by the common law or the statute of Dakota, fellow-servants in such sense as to exempt the defendant railway from liability.

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