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CHICAGO, IND. & L. RY. CO. v. HACKETT

No. 889.

228 U.S. 559 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 581

57 L.Ed. 966

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. HACKETT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 5, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Morse Ives for defendant in error in support of motion to dismiss or affirm.

Mr. E.C. Field, Mr. H.R. Kurrie and Mr. John D. Black for plaintiff in error, in opposition thereto.

MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a personal-injury case. The plaintiff, Haynes L. Hackett, was a yard switchman in the employ of the railroad company. While engaged in switching cars in the yard of the company at Monon, Indiana, on February 4, 1907, he was injured through the negligence of another servant of the company who was his immediate superior as yard foreman. He brought this action in the Supreme Court of Cook County, Illinois...

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