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Baltimore and Ohio R. Co. Vs. Baugh

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1893

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  1. Detroit Vs. Osborne US Supreme Court · May 19, 1890
  2. Paul Vs. Virginia US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1869
  3. Burgess Vs. Seligman US Supreme Court · Jan 29, 1883
  4. Claiborne County Vs. Brooks US Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1884
  5. Wheaton Vs. Peters US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1834
  6. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. Baugh
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  7. U.S. 368 (1893) U.S. Supreme Court Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. Baugh
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  8. U.S. 368 (1893) Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Baugh
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  9. for injuries caused, during the running, by the negligence of the engineer. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway v. Ross
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  10. of a railroad corporation for injuries caused to or by its servants is one of general law. In the case of Swift v. Tyson
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  11. as well as to the judicial branch of the government. This decision was in 1842. Forty years thereafter, in Burgess v. Seligman
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  12. cases are cited in which the proposition had been in terms stated or in fact recognized. Since the case of Burgess v. Seligman
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  13. but upon the other question -- whether a given matter is one of local or of general law. Thus, in the case of Bucher v. Cheshire
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  14. dispute as to the effect of a state statute, it was still a question of general law. Again, in the case of Detroit v. Osborne
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  15. that the question was one of a purely local nature. This quotation was made from the opinion in Claiborne County v. Brooks
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  16. doubt that the responsibility of a railroad company to its employees is a matter of general law. In Railroad Company v. Lockwood
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  17. such importance to the whole country it was its duty to proceed in the exercise of an independent judgment. In Hough v. Railway
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  18. In Myrick v. Michigan
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  19. of its own judgment placed a different construction upon the contract. And in the recent case of Railway Company v. Prentice
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  20. Not only that, but in the cases of Wabash Railway v. McDaniels
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  21. Randall v. Baltimore
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  22. Railway v. Ross
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  23. was sustained by this Court, was in direct opposition to the rulings of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. Thus, in Brown v. Winona
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  24. The same doctrine was announced in Brown v. Minneapolis
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  25. St. Louis Railway, 32 Minn. 54, both decided before the Ross case, and reaffirmed since in Gonsior v. Minneapolis
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  26. by that law. Indeed, the Ohio court is not wholly satisfied with that doctrine, as appears from the cases of Whaalan v. Mad
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  27. Railway v. Devinney
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  28. factors in such a question. Counsel for defendant in error rely principally upon the case of Railroad Co. v. Ross
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  29. And also from Malone v. Hathaway
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  30. Railroad v. Moore
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  31. are constantly arising in the courts. It is enough, however, to refer to those in this Court. In the cases of Hough v. Railway
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  32. Company, 100 U. S. 213 , and Northern Pacific Railroad v. Herbert
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  33. it was affirmed that the servant assumed all the risks ordinarily incident to his employment. In Railroad Company v. Fort
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  34. counted the negligence of fellow servants in the same employment. In the cases of Page 149 U. S. 389 Randall v. Balt
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  35. Ohio Railroad, 109 U. S. 478 , and Quebec Steamship Co. v. Merchant
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  36. and yet, with this knowledge, and without protest, he voluntarily rode on the engine with the engineer. Hammond v. Railway
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  37. Railway Company v. Leach
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  38. Wescott v. Railroad
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  39. as said in Wheaton v. Peters
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  40. it has been settled there for many years. In Little Miami Railroad v. Stevens
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  41. Railroad v. Keary
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  42. participation, and no servants were fellow servants when one was placed in control over the other. In Berea Stone Co. v. Kraft
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  43. and followed by the federal courts in determining causes of action affected by it arising within the state. Bucher v. Cheshire
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  44. is held admissible for the purpose of defeating the jurisdiction of a federal court. Louisville Railroad Co. v. Letson
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  45. Cowles v. Mercer
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  46. Steamship Co. v. Tugman
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  47. by a fiction, and then, by what the Court terms the general law of the country, but which this Court held in Wheaton v. Peters
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  48. Collector v. Day
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  49. Respublica v. Cobbet
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  50. Commonwealth v. Pittsburgh
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