Beatty v. Metropolitan Building Co.

Citations

• 63 Wash. 207
• 115 P. 90
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1179

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Third Persons — Acts Within Scope of Employment. Where the owner of an uncompleted office building employed an elevator boy to run an elevator for the use of tenants while the contractors were installing other elevators and completing the building, the elevator boy’s promise to an employee of the contractor not to run the elevator below the second story while the workman was necessarily in the shaft is within the scope of his employment, and does not render him the servant of the promisee; and the owner is liable for his negligence in so doing.</p>