Edwards v. Cutler-Hammer, Inc.

This case involves facts relative to the doctrine of a “borrowed employee.” The law is clear that if the one to whom an employee is lent is the master of the servant at the very time the negligent act occurs, it is upon him, as a special employer, that the liability rests. If the one lending the employee is his master at the very time of the injury, then he, as general employer, contracts the liability.

In the first place, in order that the general employer be relieved from liability and the special employer become liable, there must be a consensual relationship between the employee and the…