Lynch v. City of North Yakima

Appellant sued respondent, a city of the third class, for damages, and in his complaint sets forth two alleged causes of action. In the first he avers that respondent employed one Hauser as chief of its fire department, who had authority to, and did, employ appellant as driver of a team of horses, which respondent furnished to draw the fire engine; that it was part of appellant’s duty to drill said horses “to work to the bell” — that is, to rush from their stalls expeditiously when a fire alarm was sounded; that an “electric whip” is an inexpensive appliance commonly used for thus drilling…