Opinion ID: 1949793
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Number Six (6)

Text: The Court charges the jury that when one person or firm lends his employee to another for a particular employment, that employee, for anything done in that employment, must be considered as being the employee of him to whom he is lent, and this is true although he remains the general servant of the person or firm who lent him. However, for that result to obtain the person or firm to whom the employee is lent must have the right to control the employee in the performance of the work. It is the right to control the performance of the work at the time in question that determines the employer-employee relation. If you are reasonably satisfied by the evidence in this case that at the time of the fire alleged in the complaint, Jimmy Bayles was then and there performing services for the defendant, Samule (sic) T. Dumas, and who at that time had the right to control Jimmy Bayles in the performance of those services, and if you are further reasonably satisfied by the evidence that Jimmy Bayles was negligent in the performance of those services and that as a direct and proximate result of such negligence, a fire was caused to destroy or damage the building and personal property of the plaintiff, then your verdict should be for the plaintiff.