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Fellow-Servants

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Those engaged in the same common pursuit, under the same general control.

Cooley, Torts 541.

All who serve the same master, work under the same control, derive authority and compensation from the same common source, are engaged in the same general business, though it may be in different grades or departments of it, are fellow-servants who take the risk of each other's negligence.

Thomp. Negl. 1026.

As to the rights and liabilities growing out of this relation, see Master and Servant; Employers' Liability.