Whelan v Eason Sons

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1939
• Date: 01 January 1939
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.; H.C. Cir.),

Whelan

and

Eason & Sons

Motor car - Servant leaving car in charge of a third party - Agency - Liability of master - Intervening act - Damage not the natural and probable consequence of servant's negligence.

The defendants' servant while visiting a hotel in the course of his business left his employers' motor car, which he had been driving, for the purpose of having it locked up over-night, with a porter on the hotel staff giving him the key with instructions to drive the...