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360 Liability of servant

CHAPTER XXVI.

servants' liability for torts.

1. Liability to master.

В§ 287. Gratuitous service.

We have already seen that if one without consideration

promises to do a service for another, that not doing the

service at all is no actionable wrong, however seriously the

promisee may be damaged thereby.^ This is a mere non-

feasance, and as there is no consideration for the promise no

action can be maintained.

But if the gratuitous agent enter upon the performance of

the duty and is negligent or unskilful where he may reason-

ably be held to have undertaken for care and skill, the em-

ployer may recover damages for the injury occasioned thereby .^

If one intrust a horse to another as gratuitous servant or

bailee to be shown to a third })erson, and the gratuitous

servant, being conversant with and skilled in horses, negli-

gently rides the horse upon slippery grounds so that it falls

and is injured, the gratuitous servant or bailee is liable.^

The distinction here taken between non-feasance and mis-

feasance in the case of a gratuitous agent or servant sued

by the employer, is taken as to a paid servant sued by a

third person who is injured in consequence of the servant's

negligence.

В§ 288. Paid service.

If the servant agrees upon a consideration to perform a

service and neglects to do so to the damage of the master,

^ Ante, §§ 29, 97 ; Wilkinson v. Coverdale, 1 Esp. 75; Thorne v. Deas,

4 Johns. (n. Y.) 84.

2 Ante, в§в§ 97-98; Whiteheafl V. Greetham, 2 Biiig. 4g4.

В« Wilson V. Brett, 11 M. & W. 113.

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the latter may maintain an action for the loss.^ In such a

case it is immaterial whether the negligence is merely a non-

feasance or a misfeasance, since the consideration supports

the promise to act, and to act with care and skill.

For any negligence in the discharge of his duties resulting

in damage to the master, the servant is liable,^ but not for

accidental loss or injury not due to negligence.^ If, in con-

sequence of the servant's wrongful act, the master, being

himself not personally at fault, is obliged to pay damages to

a third person, he may recoup the same from the servant by

way of indemnity.*

2. Liability to fellow-servant.

В§ 289. Servant liable to co-servant for misfeasance.

There can be no doubt of one servant's liability to another

for any wilful tort.^

Notwithstanding the authority of some early cases,^ it is

established law that one servant is also liable to a fellow-

servant for negligence in the performance of the duties of the

service.'^ But some courts make a subtle distinction between

misfeasance and non-feasance, and hold the negligent servant

1 Ante, §§ 88-89.

2 Countess of Salop v. Crompton, Cro. Eiiz. 777 ; Lewson v. Kirk,

Cro. Jac. 265; Mobile, &c. R. v. Clanton, 59 Ala. 392; Gilson v. Collins,

66 111. 136.

3 Savage v. Walthew, 11 Mod. 135; Walker v. Guarantee Ass'n, 18

Q. B. 277 ; Rechtscherd v. Accommodation Bank, 47 Mo. 181 ; Page v.

Wells, 37 Mich. 415 ; Johnson v. Martin, 11 La. An. 27.

* Green v. New River Co., 4 T. R. 589 ; Pritchard v. Hitchcock,

6 M. & G. 151; Grand Trunk Ry. v. Latham, 63 Me. 177; Challiss i-.

Wylie, 35 Kans. 506 ; Oceanic, &c. Nav. Co. v. Compania, &c. Espanola,

134 N. Y. 461, 467.

6 Reg. V. Huntley, 3 Car. & K. 142.

6 Southcote V. Stanley, 1 Hurl. & N. 247 (dictum) ; Albro v. Jaquith,

4 Gray (Mass.), 99.

'' Osborne v. Morgan, 130 Mass. 102; Griffiths v. Wolfram, 22 Minn.

185; Greenberg v. Whitcomb Lumber Co., 90 Wis. 225; Lawton v.

Waite, 103 Wis. 244; Daves v. Southern Pac. Co., 98 Cal. 19; Martin v.

Louisville, &c. R., 95 Ky. 612 ; Warax v. Cincinnati, &c. R., 72 Fed.

Rep. 037.

362 LIABILITY OF SERVANT

liable to the injured servant for the former but not for the

latter.^ While the distinction is a valid one between bare

non-feasance (not doing at all) and misfeasance (doing ill

either by commission or omission after performance begun),

the distinction between commission and omission after per-

formance is once begun has led to considerable confusion.

This subject will be discussed in the succeeding sections.

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