Dowdell v. Krystal Co.

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• holding that restaurant was not liable under theory of respondeat superior for employee's fistfight with plaintiff because act of fighting with plaintiff was not connected to or in furtherance of employee's duties
• restaurant could not have reasonably foreseen altercation by cashier when cashier did not have a criminal record and cashier had not argued, much less struck, any customers during employment
• cashier trained to refer customer complaints to manager and had no responsibility to resolve them; fighting with complaining customer not for any purpose beneficial to employer; cashier abandoned employer’s business

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