Betsill v. Scale Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even when employee was driving employer’s vehicle, employee was not acting within the scope of his employment absent evidence that he had undertaken a special mission at his employer’s direction
• the general rule is that an employee is deemed to act only for his own purposes while commuting to work unless he undertakes a special mission at the employer’s direction
• the general rule is that an employee is deemed to act only for his own purposes while commuting to work unless he undertakes a special mission at the employer’s direction
• employee who was provided with company vehicle and was on call 24 hours a day was not on a special mission when he undertook a work-related errand without a specific directive from employer
• in the context of the special mission exception, employee was not in scope of employment during commute even though he was dropping off items for employer, where he was not paid for the time he spent making the delivery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).