Ireton v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Citations

• 96 Kan. 480
• 152 P. 625
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 413

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Damages — Fire Negligently Started by Railroad Employees While Em gaged in Private Business — Company Not Liable. The rule that an employer in not liable for the consequences of negligent acts of his employee committed outside the scope of the employment applied in an action for damages resulting from a fire maintained by laborers for their own domestic purposes on the right of way of a railway company which employed them to lay steel and ballast track.</p>