Gassaway v. Precon Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• identifying one relevant inquiry as “whether the employer retained the power to discharge his employee for failure to perform the errand.”
• workers’ compensation system is “designed especially to protect workers injured in the course of their work”
• workers’ compensation system is “designed especially to protect 2 workers injured in the course of their work”
• generally, the laws of workers’ compensation and negligence are different with regard to scope of employment
• “Under Georgia law, when an employee is involved in a collision while operating his employer’s vehicle, a presumption arises that he is acting within the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).