Case Name: Toledo Cons. St. Ry. Co. v. Rudolph Yunker
Court: Lucas Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1893-09
Citations: 4 Ohio Cir. Dec. 23
Docket Number: 
Parties: Toledo Cons. St. Ry. Co. v. Rudolph Yunker.
Judges: Bentley, Haynes and Scribner, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 4
Pages: 23–23

Head Matter:
MASTER AND SERVANT.
[Lucas Circuit Court,
September Term, 1893.]
Bentley, Haynes and Scribner, JJ.
Toledo Cons. St. Ry. Co. v. Rudolph Yunker.
Injury To Street Railway Employee. _
An injury to the driver of a street car drawn over the dash by the breaking of a hame strap, the defects of which were known to the stable foreman, is not a case of fellow servant, but of defective appliances and the company is liable.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lucas county.
Baker, Smith & Baker, for plaintiff in errror.
/. H. Southard, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Haynes, J.
In this case Yunker sues the railroad company for alleged negligence in furnishing and using an unsafe hame strap which was used on the harness of the horse he was driving. The horse suddenly reared and plunged, the hame strap broke, and Yunker, who had hold of the lines, was suddenly and with force thrown or drawn over the dash-board of the car, and severely injured.
Held, that the jury were warranted in finding that the hame strap furnished and used by the company was of poor quality and insufficient for the service, and that the breaking of the one in use upon the horse Yunker was driving was the cause of the accident; that the company had knowledge of said defects through the foreman of the car barn, who, under the evidence, might properly be held to be the representative of the company in that behalf; also from statements made to the manager; that the doctrine of non-Jiability for acts of co-servant does not therefore apply to defeat the action; that the plaintiff was without negligence and might properly recover.
Judgment affirmed.