Cumming v. Automobile Crank Shaft Corp.

An employee of defendant received an injury in the course of his employment, having half of a thumb torn off by an emery wheel; another employee owned an automobile parked near the factory and volunteered to take the injured man to a hospital, with which defendant had a contract to care for its injured employees; defendant’s superintendent wanted the man so taken, accepted the tendered service and, by means thereof, the injured employee was conveyed to the hospital. The defendant had no conveyance of its own. On the way to the hospital the automobile struck plaintiff’s decedent, causing his…