In Rhatigan v.The Brooklyn Union Gas Company, 136 A.D. 727 (2d Dept. 1910), in applying the doctrine of respondeat superior, the court stated that "it is not necessary that he the workman should have been under any general employment of the defendant, nor that he should be under any engagement of service to him, or entitled to receive compensation from him directly. It is enough that, at the time of the accident, he was in charge of the defendant's property by his assent and authority, and engaged in his business."