Beggerly v. Walker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that one who directs another to commit an assault for one’s own benefit is liable
• explaining that “a wrongdoer is deprived of the law’s protection” when “his illegal act” has “a causal connection with his injury”
• plaintiff stated claim against defendant for assault under theory of respondeat superior where employee’s duties involved preservation of peace and maintaining order on employer’s premises
• “Before a wrongdoer is deprived of the law’s protection, his illegal act must have a causal connection with his injury . . . .”
• Allegations implying an employee acted within the scope of his employment at a private club when he hit plaintiff, a patron at the club, provided sufficient notice to the employer that it faced respondeat superior liability.
• “[A] master is not liable for a tortious act committed by his servant . . . unless the act be done by authority of the master, either express or implied, or unless the act be done by the servant in the course or within the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).