Columbia by the Sea, Inc. v. Petty

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that jury could conclude that maitre d' of restaurant acted within scope of employment when he battered customer with an ashtray during an attempt to get him to pay thirty-five-cent upcharge for roquefort salad dressing
• jury question created as to the scope of employment question when maitre d' struck a customer after customer failed to pay his bill and called maitre d' a \bastard\
• “seldom is one of the factors”––nature of duties, course of the assault, or motivation––“deemed of itself decisive; rather, each must be considered in terms of the others”
• restaurant employee assaulted patron who refused to pay 35 cents for salad dressing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).