Rush Banks v. Eastern Railway & Lumber Co.

Citations

• 46 Wash. 610
• 90 P. 1048
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 672

Syllabus

<p>Torts — Malice—Wrongful Motive in Lawful Act — Master and Servant — Selection of Hospital. A physician who conducts a public hospital has no cause of action against a lumber and railway company for maliciously paying hospital dues, deducted from the wages of its employees, to a rival hospital, and requiring such employees to receive attendance from such rival hospital, after the employees had requested the payment of such dues to the plaintiff, whose hospital they wished to patronize; since the employer may select its own hospital, is under no contract obligation with the plaintiff, and is not liable for malice in lawfully employing men under agreement to attend a hospital of its own selection.</p>