Vanderboget v. Campbell Mill Co.

Citations

• 82 Wash. 602
• 144 P. 905
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1617

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injured Servants — Liability for Medical and Hospital Services — Contract—Performance or Breach. A mill company, wbicb bad agreed to furnisb hospital and medical attention to injured employees, deducting one dollar a month from their pay for such purpose, is not liable for the services of doctors and a nurse who were employed by the family of the injured employee after his arrival at the hospital, because they were not satisfied with the company’s physician, who tendered his services free, since the company had fully performed its contract, so far as permitted.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Scope op Employment — Authority of Servant. A lumber salesman, directed by a mill company to take an injured employee to a hospital where the company had already arranged for medical and hospital services, has no authority to employ some other physician, especially where the higher officers of the company could have been easily reached by telephone.</p>