Chamberlain

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for two thousand dollars awarded as damages for personal injuries.

The Southern California Edison Company is a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing and distributing electricity for light, heat, and power. One of its employees, J. A. Lighthipe, owned an automobile which was in need of repairs. The general storekeeper of the corporation was W. T. Sterling, and J. G. Rosso was the driver of one of the company’s automobile trucks used in distributing supplies. Rosso was under Sterling’s direction but was subject to orders also from the president, the general manager, or the assistant general manager. Sterling, the storekeeper, ordered Rosso, the chauffeur, to go to the residence of Lighthipe with the company’s truck of which Rosso was the driver and to bring Lighthipe’s motor car to the shop which the corporation maintained for the repair of its own motor vehicles. This order was obeyed and while Rosso was towing Lighthipe’s automobile, Caleb Chamberlain was injured through the carelessness and negligence of Rosso. It was shown that Lighthipe’s automobile was repaired at the company’s shop; that a bill was…