· 11/10/1941
Boston & Maine Railroad v. Cunningham
Citations
- 314 U.S. 682
- 62 S. Ct. 185
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- explaining that if wrongful conduct occurs while a “servant was acting in his own personal business, the master does not become liable [through ratification] merely by reason of the fact that he thereafter retains the servant in his employ”
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