Crittenden v. Thompson-Walker Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “if the servant acts for some independent purpose of his own, wholly disconnected with the furtherance of his master’s business, his conduct falls outside the scope of his employment”
• finding an employee’s assault to be within the scope of his employment because, among other factors, the employee’s relationship with the injured party “arose solely from his position as [the employer’s] employee.”
• “[I]f the servant acts for some independent purpose of his own, wholly disconnected with the furtherance of his master’s business, his conduct falls outside the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).