Knust v. Bullock

Citations

• 59 Wash. 141
• 109 P. 329
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1148

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Runaway Team — Injuries to Third Persons — Employment of Servant — Evidence—Sufficiency. In an action for injuries caused by a runaway team, evidence that the team belonged to the defendants establishes, prima facie, that they were in defendants’ possession, and that the driver was in control of them.</p> <p>Appeal — Review — Harmless Error — Admission of Evidence. Error cannot be urged in the admission of statements by an agent that he was employed by the defendants, when it was not objected to at the time and a prima facie case of employment had been made out.</p> <p>Same — Evidence—Sufficiency. Error cannot be predicated on insufficiency of the evidence to sustain a liability upon one ground where there was no request to withdraw that ground from the consideration of the jury, and there was sufficient to sustain a recovery on another branch of the case.</p>