Keenan v. Southworth
Cases that cite this one
12 later published cases cite this decision.
- Nelson v. Babcock (Minn. 1933)
- Eugene Sikora v. State of Iowa and Dr. Beth Skinner, in her official capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections (Iowa 2025)
- Ali Pineda v. Hamilton Cty., Ohio (6th Cir. 2020)
- Commonwealth ex rel. Orris v. Roberts (Pa. 1958)
- City of Wagoner v. Case (Okla. 1935)
- Lajoie v. Milliken (Mass. 1922)
- City of Duluth v. Ross (Minn. 1918)
- Raisler v. Oliver & Co. (Ala. 1892)
- Hawkins v. Thomas (Ind. Ct. App. 1891)
- Robertson v. Sichel (Supreme Court of the United States 1888)
- Ellison v. Lindsley (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1880)
- Foster v. M. A. Metts & Co. (Miss. 1877)
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Opinion of the Court
The law is well settled, in England and America, that the postmaster general, the deputy postmasters, and their assistants and clerks, appointed and sworn as required by law, are public officers, each of whom is responsible for his own negligence
The ruling at the trial was therefore right; and the plaintiff, having consented to a verdict for the defendant, reserving only the question of the correctness of that ruling, cannot now raise the question whether there was sufficient evidence of the defendant’s own negligence to be submitted to the jury.
Judgment on the verdict.
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