Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Prince

Citations

• 50 Ill. 26

Syllabus

<p>1. Principal and agent—ratification of acts of an agent—evidence of. The act of an agent in employing surgical skill necessary to save human life—as in the case of one injured in the service' of the principal—will generally be found by a jury to have been ratified by the principal, upon somewhat slight evidence.</p> <p>2. Same—principal liable for unauthorized acts of an agent—when. Where a railroad station agent engages a surgeon to attend an employee injured in the service of the company, although such act is unauthorized, yet the company will be liable, if, upon due notice given to the general superintendent, the act is not repudiated. To avoid responsibility in such case, the superintendent should nave dissented from the action of the station agent, and directed him to apprise the surgeon of such dissent.</p>