Strait v. Hale Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting \control\ test in favor of enterprise liability analysis. See generally, Klemme, The Enterprise Liability Theory of Torts, 47 U.Colo.L.Rev. 153 (1976
• affirming farmer’s vicarious liability for highway collision caused by on-loan employee-operator of farmer’s loaned machine, though farmer was avowedly “not in the business of renting heavy equipment and furnishing an operator”
• in excellent discussion, court relied on workmen's compensation case, similar to Humphreys, cited above, to hold borrowing and lending employers liable for the tort of the borrowed servant
• “The losses caused by the torts of employees, which as a practical matter are sure to occur in the conduct of the employer’s enterprise, are placed upon that enterprise itself, as a required cost of doing business.”
• rejecting “control” test in favor of enterprise liability analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).