Reed v. Ridout's Ambulance, Inc.

The question of controlling importance in this case is whether the plaintiff at the time of his injury was riding in the defendant’s truck by invitation merely, or whether he was an employé of defendant and was riding in the truck in the course of his employment and service.

Counsel for plaintiff conceive and insist that, because he was a “vocational student,” serving without pay, and for- the purpose solely of learning the business of embalming, he was not a servant or employé of defendant in any legal sense, and hence that the legal incidents of such a relation did not attach — thereby…