Case ID: ind-app_42/html/0342-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Comstock, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

American Car & Foundry Company v. Applegate.
    [No. 6,414.
    Filed October 9, 1908.]
    
      Pleading. — Complaint.—Master and Servant. — Employers’ Liability Aet. — Private Corporations. — A complaint, for damages, by a servant against a private- corporation, based upon section one of the employers’ liability act (Acts 1893, p. 294, §8017 Burns 1908), is insufficient, such act having been declared unconstitutional as to private corporations.
    Prom Clark Circuit Court, Harry C. Montgomery, Judge.
    
    Action by Prank M. Applegate against the American Car &' Foundry Company. Prom a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff for $800, defendant appeals.
    
      Reversed.
    
    
      M. Z. Stannard, for appellant.
    
      L. A. Douglas, for appellee.
   Comstock, J.

Appellee recovered judgment for personal injuries sustained by him while in the employ of appellant. The complaint was based upon the second subdivision of section one of the employers’ liability act (Acts 1893, p. 294, §8017 Burns 1908).

A demurrer to the complaint for want of facts was overruled, and appellants answered by general denial. The ruling on the demurrer is one of the errors assigned.

The statute upon which the complaint is based having been held unconstitutional as to private corporations by the Supreme Court, said ruling was erroneous. Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough (1907), 168 Ind. 671, 14 L. R. A. (N. S.) 418; Standard Cement Co. v. Minor (1908), ante, 231.

Judgment reversed, with instructions to sustain appellant’s demurrer to the complaint.