Definition of Emergency Employment Doctrine
A regularly employed servant possesses implied authority to engage an assistant to aid in performing a task, within scope of servant’s duties in case of emergency rendering it absolutely necessary to obtain such assistance, and without which emergency conditions could not be overcome by servant or any of his coemployees in regular service of their common master. Hall v. O. C. Whitaker Co., 143 Tex. 397, 185 S.W.2d 720, 722, 723.
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