Nyman v. MacRae Bros. Construction Co.

This case presents an often recurring problem of agency law: Whether a servant directed or permitted by his master to perform services for another becomes the servant of such other while performing such services. The cases are legion and are collected under the annotations dealing with the so-called “loaned servant doctrine.” They present quite a Pandora’s “package” for analysis. In view of the variety of fact patterns inherent in situations involving the trading, borrowing, or renting of servants between and among masters, it seems apparent that a “seamless web” of continuity or…