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 servant. Had the same accident occurred in the employ of a master whose servants were all of the same rank, no claim of liability would be thought of. The proprietor of a factory, of a machine-shop, of a mill, of any business in which gradations of service are not absolutely essential, is present in the persons of his servants only so far as his personal duties to his employes are concerned. But the railroad master, though Argus-eyed to discern, and Briarean to prevent, the negligence of its horde of vice-principals—conductors, as in the Ross case, 112 U. S. Rep. 377, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 184, superintendents, section bosses, foremen of various gangs, and many others—would find itself impotent to save itself from enormous responsibility not incurred by many other masters, notwithstanding its utmost caution in the selection of its employes. According to this doctrine the master that has fully discharged all its or his personal duties may be guilty at the same time in as many different places of a score of negligent acts by construction of law, although they are acts pertaining to the duties of a mere servant, performed by one who is in fact a servant, and whose carelessness in this regard can as fairly be said to be within the risks incurred by the injured servant as the carelessness of an employe of lower rank. If there is anything in the reason for the fellow-servant rule, it applies with even stronger force to a class of servants whose higher position is a guaranty of better skill and intelligence, and consequently of the exercise of greater care. Their enlarged responsibility to the master will tend to make them more cautious. Their compensation is frequently so large as to make the retention of their positions very desirable to them. This will augment their caution; for negligent performance of duty would be almost certain to result in their dismissal. There is nothing in the controlling power of the superior servant that warrants any difference in the law; for it cannot be said, as is frequently asserted in cases, that any employe is justified in submitting to the carelessness of a superior from fear of being discharged; and the fact is that it is seldom in the power of the injured servant to anticipate or guard against the careless act of the fellow-servant causing injury to him. If he could and did, the accident would not happen. If he could and did not, he