Planters Cotton-Oil Co. v. Baker

Bussell, Chief Justice.

The first question must be answered in the negative. Sections 3603 and 4413, being in pari materia, must be construed together. Each is supplemental of the other. Consequently there should not “be made any distinction between the relationships of principal and agent and that of master and servant, so as to make different rules of liability apply according to the nature of the relationship.” Section 4413 is not contrary to section 3603, because section 3603 properly construed does not mean that the principal is not liable for the wilful trespass of *163his agent unless done…