The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-13

stock was made on the books of the cor
poration.
Termination of Relationship of Carrier
and Passenger-A passenger on a railway
train has been held by the court of civil
appeals of Texas, in the case of Texas &
T. r. Co., VS.. Dick, SO S. W. 1876, to remain
such after alighting from the train and
while in the depot premises of the COM
pany for a period of time reasonably
necessary to enable him to leave the
same, and is therefore entitled to the
reasonable protection of the company's
agents and servants from the assaults of
third persons during such time
Custody of insane Person-It has been
held by the supreme court of Indiana in
the case of State VS. Overman, 60 North
eastern Reporter, 1917, that where the
sheriff in Indiana had an insane person
in his custody, and without warrant, or
authority secretly conveyed him into
Ohio, and there left him by the roadside,
the board of directors of the county in
Urinary of the county in which the insane
person was released was not entitled to
writ of mandamus to compel the de-
PENDANT to receive the insane person back
into his custody.
Attorney and Client-A client is not af-
fected with notice Of facts within the
knowledge of his attorney according to
the supreme court of Tennessee in the
case of Nelson VS.. Weber, Ga Southwest
ern Reporter, 20, when the facts were OBJ
tanned by the attorney from outside
sources, and not in the matter and course
OF his employment for such client.
Train Dispatcher as Employe Running
Train-A train dispatcher has been held
in the case of Rinard VS.. Omaha, K. c.
& E. Ry. Co., GA Southwestern Reporter,
124 to be an employee running a train,
within the meaning of the statute provid-
ing that whenever a person shall die from
an injury resulting from the negligence of
any person in running any train the rail
road shall be liable.
Anti-Scalper Law Unconstitutional-New
York Laws of 1901, c. &C., prohibiting the
sale of railroad tickets by "scalpers,"
has been held unconstitutional in the case
of People eX rel, We'll VS.. Hagan Il New
York Supplement, 461. Judge Gildersleeve
holds that the present law is substantially
. the same as the law of 1887, which was
held unconstitutional by the court of ap-
peals, and quotes from the opinion of the
latter court, as follows: ga law which
prohibits the selling of tickets of passage
on railway trains by any persons except
common carriers and their authorized
agents transcends the police power and
violates the CONSTITUTIONAL III
so far as it undertakes to prohibit citizens
from engaging in the business of broker
age in passage tickets
Law as to Fellow Servants The Indi-
ana enactment known as the employers
liability act which regulates the liabil-
ity of a railroad corporation for injuries
to its employees, has recently been con-
, strued in the case of the Indianapolis
Union Railway company VS. Houlihan, 60
Northeastern Reporter, 943. The court
holds that the section making railroad
corporations liable for injuries to their
employees the same as strangers where
the injury is caused by the negligence of
locomotive engineers or trainmen, ETC.,
whether the employe was acting in ODE
dience to some superior at the time or
on his own initiative, is not in conflict
with the equality clause of the federal