Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Harry Newton, Inc.

OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

When the verdict of the jury was received by the trial court it developed that if the plaintiff were entitled to a judgment it would be upon findings made in response to inquiry upon the matter of whether, as of the material time, plaintiff’s long time employee had become the borrowed servant of the defendant. If he was a borrowed servant of the defendant and had completely departed from that master-servant relationship with plaintiff (in respect to the event with which we are concerned) when his negligence resulted in damage to plaintiff’s property plaintiff…