Scott

Plaintiff is a physician and surgeon, and brought this action, both in his own behalf and as assignee of other claims, to recover for professional services rendered and medicines furnished to an employee of defendant, which services and medicines are alleged to have been rendered and furnished at defendant's request. Defendant is a corporation having its principal place of business at San Francisco, but at the times mentioned in the complaint was engaged in mining oil and the development of oil lands in Kern county. No question is made as to the rendition or value of the services alleged to have been performed, but defendant denies that the same were rendered at its request. The chief question, therefore, presented is whether defendant authorized plaintiff to render the services.

It appears from the findings that on or about the twenty-second day of February, 1908, one Leslie Ingalls was in the employ of defendant as a laborer upon certain oil lands which defendant was then engaged in developing; that while so in the employ of defendant, and while performing the duties of his said employment, said Ingalls received great bodily injury and was so dangerously hurt that he lost all…