Fellow Servants

Certain servants of a common master, for injuries to one of whom by the negligence of another the master was not liable if he had exercised due care in the selection of the servants, and the providing of safe appliances. The doctrine is an exception to the rule of respondeat superior, and rests upon the reason that coservants are better able to guard against each other's negligence than the master is to protect them. The earliest English case is found in 3 ' Mees. & W. 1. Earliest American cases are found in 1 Mc Mull. (S. C.) 385, and 4 Mete. (Mass.) 49. The question of who are fellow servants has given rise to a diversity of rules in different jurisdictions, making a generar definition impossible. FELO DE SE (Lat.) In criminal law. A felon of himself; a self-murderer. See "Suicide." FELONIA (Lat.) Felony; the act or offense by which a vassal forfeited his fee. Spelman; Calv, 'Lex. Per feloniam, with a criminal intention.

Co. Litt. 391.

Felonioe was formerly used also in the sense of "feloniously."

Cunningham.