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1 Hardy V. Shedden Co., 78 Fed. Gio.

e Jones v. Scullard, 1898, 2 Q. B. 565.

8 Lord Russell of Killowen, c. J., in Jones V. Scullard, 1898, 2 q. B.

5G5, 574-575.

TRANSFER OF SERVICE. 283

В§ 230. Hiring machine and operator.

Another type of cases upon the transfer of service is made up

of instances of the loan or rental of a machine or mechanical

device of some sort together with an operator. In such cases

the operator is the general servant of the owner of the ma-

chine, but may become temporarily the special servant of the

hirer. Thus the loan of an engine with an engineer to run

it/ or of a hoisting crane with a man to operate it,^ has been

held in England to constitute the operator the servant of the

hirer where the latter had full control over him. " For some

purposes, no doubt, the man was the servant of the defend-

ants [owners of the crane]. Probably, if he had let the

crane get out of order by his neglect, and in consequence any

one was injured thereby, the defendants might be liable; but

the accident in this case did not happen from that cause, but

from the manner of working the crane." ^ The cases are dis-

tinguished from the " carriage cases " on the ground that the

driver of a carriage is not put under the control of the hirer.

It has also been held that the engineer and crew of a railroad

switching engine operating temporarily upon the private

switch of a mill-owner, and under his orders, are the ser-

Vants for the time of the mill-owner and not of the railroad

company.* So also where a railroad company lets a contract

for the construction of a track and agrees to furnish and does

furnish a construction train with an operating crew, the crew

are held to be the servants of the constructor, and not of the

company.^ One or two cases holding a different doctrine, and

following the " carriage cases," have not met with approval.^

So also if the owner of a lighter charters the boat and crew

to another, he is not liable for the negligence of the captain.^

1 Rourke V. White Moss CoTliery Co., l. R. 2 c. P. D. 205.

2 Donovan V. Laing, 1893, 1 q. B. 629. ' Ibid. P. 632.

4 Mclnerney v. T>. & H. Canal Co., 151 N. Y. 411.

s Miller v. Minnesota & Northwestern Ry., 76 Iowa, 655; Powell o.

Construction Co., 88 Tenn. 692 ; Byrne v. Kansas City, &c. R., 61 Fed.

R. 605.

6 Burton V. G. H. & s. A. Ry., 61 Tex. 526 ; New Orleans, &c. R. V.

Norwood, 62 Miss. 565. See also Coggin v. Central R. Co., 62 Ga. 685.

' Anderson v. Beyer, 156 N. Y. 93.

284 ^VII0 IS a servant ?

The assent or non-ass^ent of the servant to the transfer of

service and the substitution of masters may be an important

element in determining whether such transfer is complete, and

this question may be so doubtful as to require the verdict of

a jury for its determination.^

В§ 231. Servants sent to work on another's premises.

If the general master is asked to furnish a workman for a

particular service, and does furnish the workman, who is sent

to work upon the hirer's premises, is the workman the ser-

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