Braddy v. Collins Plumbing & Construction, Inc.

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• affirming summary judgment to employer due to insufficient evidence to support a finding of respondeat superior liability, despite evidence that employee was driving a company-owned truck in which a two-way radio was installed for communicating during the work day with the job site
• employee was driving truck with a two-way radio installed for communicating to employer; truck contained parts and tools for use of other employees
• insufficient evidence contradicted employee’s statement that he was driving work vehicle for the purpose of getting to work and nothing more
• fact that employee’s truck had two-way radio for communications with employer, as well as parts and tools for use of other employees insufficient to apply exception
• employee driving company vehicle from his home to the work site at the time of the accident was not acting within the scope of his employment
• employer entitled to summary judgment because there was insufficient evidence to contradict employee’s statement that he was driving work vehicle for the purpose of getting to work and nothing more

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).