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114; Southern Express Co. V. Platten, 36 c. C. A. 46, 93 Fed. Rep.

936.

В§ 255. In the case of carriers of passengers who

owe their passengers a special duty of protection, and

others in like situation, the rule may, perhaps, be more

broadly stated. For if a principal who owes such a

duty entrusts its performance to an agent, he will not

only be liable if it be not performed, but he will clearly

be responsible if the agent not only does not perform

it, but adds to the wrong of non-performance the ag-

gravation of vranton, wilful or malicious injury.

See Craker v. Chicago, etc., Ry. Co., 36 Wis. 657, 17 Am. Rep.

В§5 255-258.] DUTIES OF PRINCIPAL TO THIRD PERSON. 1 37

501; Bryant v. Rich, 106 Mass. 180, 8 Am. Rep. 311; Stewart v. Brook-

lyn, etc., R. Co., 90 N. Y. 588, 43 Am. Rep. 185; Chicago, etc., R. Co.

v. Flexman, 103 111. 546, 42 Am. Rep. 33; McKinky v. Chicago, etc.

Ry. Co., 44 Iowa 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748.

See the same principle applied to telegraph companies in McCord

v. Western Union Tel. Co., 39 Minn. 181, 39 N. W. Rep. 315, 12 Am.

St. Rep. 636, and as to the duty to furnish safe appliances, etc.:

New York, etc., R. Co. t. O'Leary, 35 C. C. A. 562, 93 Fed. Rep. 737.

В§ 256. The doctrine of ratification is constantly

applied, and the rule that he who with knowledge of

the facts receives the fruits or takes the benefits of an

act, must adopt also the liabilities, is especially appli-

cable. Frequent illustrations are found in cases where-

in false representations have been made by the agent

to obtain the benefit which the principal has appro-

priated.

See Mayer r. Dean, 115 N. Y. 556, 22 N. E. Rep. 261, 5 L. R. A.

540; Fairchild v. McMahon, 139 N. Y. 290, 34 N. E. Rep. 779. 36 Am.

St. Rep. 701; Meyerhoff v. Daniels, 173 Pa. St. 555, 34 Atl. Rep. 298,

51 Am. St. Rep. 782; Baltimore Trust Co. t. Hambleton, 84 Md. 456,

36 Atl. Rep. 597, 40 L. R. A. 216; Hoffman y. Mayand, 35 C. C. A.

256, 93 Fed. Rep. 171; Kilpatrick v. Haley, 13 C. C. A. 480, 66 Fed.

Rep. 133.

В§ 257. The rule of liability extends also to the

acts of sub-agents, where they have been so appointed,

within the principles already considered, as to make

them in law the agents of the principal.

See Arff t. Ins. Co., 125 N. Y. 57, 25 N. E. Rep. 1073, 10 L. R. A.

609; Goode v. Ins. Co., 92 Va. 392, 23 S. E. Rep. 744, 30 L. R. A. 842;

Steele v. Ins. Co., 93 Mich. 81, 53 N. W. Rep. 514, IS L. R. A. 85.

§ 258. Limitations.— It is not to be assumed, how-

ever, that the principal is responsible for every act

which his agent may commit. If the agent has finished

that which he was authorized to do, or if he leaves the

principal's affairs to attend to some matter of his own,

and then commits the act complained of, the principal

will not be responsible. So if, prompted by curiosity

1 38 Duties of principal to third person. [в§в§ 258-259.

or ill-will, he is where he has no business to be — where

he has no duty to perform, where his authority does

not call him — if he be engaged in that which does not

concern his principal — and then commits the tort, the

principal is not liable.

See Mitchell v. Crassweller, 13 Com. B. 237; Storey v. Ashton, L.

R. 4 Q. B. 476; Maddox v Brown, 71 Me. 432, 36 Am. Rep. 336; Stone

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