Corene Antoinette Lyon v. Michael Carey

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• holding that a jury reasonably could find that a mattress deliveryman’s assault on a customer following a delivery-related dispute was a “foreseeable altercation”
• concluding that a jury reasonably found that a mattress deliveryman acted within the scope of his employment when he assaulted and raped a customer following a delivery-related dispute
• trucking company liable for delivery person’s sexual assault on customer after argument over payment by personal check
• applying case law of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia for a scope of employment question
• dismissing claim against tortfeasor’s employer for failure to allege facts to support respondeat superior liability
• finding a deliveryman's rape and assault of a woman accepting a delivery to be foreseeable because \[t]he dispute arose out of the very transaction which had brought [the deliveryman] to the premises.\

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