Railway companies
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The Law of Torts
Railway companies repeatedly discussed as employers answerable, within limits, for the acts of their porters, guards, inspectors, and station-masters.
Railway companies have accordingly been held liable for wrongful arrests made by their inspectors or other officers as for attempted frauds on the company punishable under statutes or authorized by-laws, and the like.
The same rule holds if the particular servant’s act is plainly beyond his authority, as where the officer in charge of a railway station arrests a man on suspicion of stealing the company’s goods, an act which is not part of the company’s general business, nor for their apparent benefit.
Most of the cases on this head have arisen out of acts of railway servants on behalf of the companies.