Eaton v. Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that a claim of “[n]egligent supervision is simply not the appropriate claim to bring against an employer whose employees are acting within the scope of their duties”
• “Transporting Zimmer to whatever destination he wished was the very thing the ACTS drivers were hired to do. . . . Negligent supervision is simply not the appropriate claim to bring against an employer whose employees are acting within the scope of their duties.”
• “Furthermore, it is also necessary that the actions of the employee be performed outside the scope of employment.” (citation omitted)
• “[N]egligent supervision exists when the defendant negligently placed [the plaintiff] under the supervision of [an employee], when [the defendant] either knew or should have known that [the employee] had the propensity to commit [the torts alleged].” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).