Jones v. Hoge

Citations

• 47 Wash. 663
• 92 P. 433
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 832

Syllabus

<p>Highways—Automobiles—Injuries to Travelers. An. automobile is not such a dangerous agency as to render the owner liable to travelers in the highway for injuries inflicted therewith by a servant irrespective of the scope of the employment, and merely because the owner has made it possible for the servant to take out the machine at his pleasure.</p> <p>Master and Servant—Injury to Third Person—Negligence of Servant—Scope of Employment. The owner of an automobile is not liable to one who was run over by. his incompetent chauffeur, where the machine was being operated without the knowledge or authority of the owner on a personal errand of the servant; since the act was not within the scope of the servant’s employment.</p>