Question

PRINCIPLE A master is liable for the acts of servant done in the course of employment.

FACTS A nurse was deployed for the care of an old invalid suffering a very painful and terminal illness in a hospice. A visiting doctor used to come in every week and prescribe certain medications. In order to alleviate the pain, she used to slip in certain narcotic drugs to the patient with whom she had developed a friendly relationship. The narcotics eventually reacted with the drugs of the doctor's prescription thereby inducing a fatal cardiac arrest in the patient. In a suit brought by the legal heirs of the patient, the suit shall

पर्याय

• not succeed as the drugs were given in personal capacity

• not succeed as the nurse was carrying an unauthorised act

• succeed against the hospice in whose employ the nurse was

• succeed against the doctor as the nurse was under his direction and control

Answer 1

succeed against the hospice in whose employ the nurse was