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8 Gwilliam V. Twist, supra.

* Ante, В§ 239.

B Church V. Chicago, &c. Ry., 50 Minn. 218.

• Church V. Chicago, &c. Ry., supra.

SUB-SERVANTS AND VOLUNTEERS. 293

save the volunteer from being regarded as a trespasser, but

he still assumes all the risks of the temporary service, except

that he does not assume the risk of the wanton injury, or an

Injury recklessly inflicted after knowledge of his dangerous

situation.^

If, however, the volunteer performs the service at the

request of M's servants, but not for M's benefit primarily,

but to expedite his own or his master's business, he is not

a trespasser and does not assume the risks, and may recover

if negligently injured.^ In such case the volunteer is not

M's servant so as to render M liable for his negligence ; on

the other hand he is in the position of any third person in-

jured by M's servants.

In case the volunteer renders a beneficial service for the

alleged master, in his presence or with his knowledge, and

is suffered to proceed without dissent, an assent may be

implied and the relation of master and servant established

to an extent necessary to render the master liable to third

persons for the tortious acts of the volunteer done in the

course of such service.^

1 Evarts v. St. Paul, &c. Ry., 56 Minn. 141.

2 Easou V. S. & E. T. Ry., 65 Tex. 577 ; Street Ry. v. Bolton, 43 Oh.

St. 224 ; Welch v. Maine Cent. R., 86 Me. 552.

8 HUl V. Morey, 26 Vt. 178.

PART II.

LIABILITY OF MASTER FOR TORTS AND CRIMES OF

SERVANT.

В§ 241. Introductory.

The main object of the relation of master and servant is

that the servant shall perform operative acts for the master.

In so doing the servant may wilfully or negligently injure

the person or property of some third person. To determine

the grounds of liability in such a case, together with the

extent and limits of liability, is one of the problems we have

now to consider. We have also to consider whether the

liability is the same in case the employer is a public political

entity like a state or city, or is a i)ublic charity. The ser-

vant may, while about his master's business, commit a crime,

and we liave also to inquire whether the master can be held

liable in a criminal prosecution for such offence.

LIABILITY OF MASTER FOR TORTS OF SERVANT. 295

CHAPTER XXI.

LIABILITY OF MASTER TO THIRD PERSONS FOR TORTS OP

SERVANT.

В§ 242. Conditions of liability.

In order that a master shall be held liable to third persons

for torts committed by his servant resulting in injury to

them, it must appear :

(I.) That the wrongdoer was in fact the servant of the one

sought to be charged with liability ;

(II.) That the servant was at the time of the commission

of the tort about his master's business ;

(III.) That the servant was acting within the course of

his employment ;

(IV.) If the tort was wilful, either (1) that the servant

was acting within the course of the employment and in the

furtherance of it, or (2) that the master had voluntarily un-

dertaken toward the injured party the particular obligation

broken by the servant and had intrusted the performance of

the obligation to the servant who committed the breach of

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