Gruben v. Trout Lake Lumber Co.

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• ultimate question in whether subject employee was “acting within the scope of the[] employment” is whether “he [was] acting in furtherance of his master’s business”—emphasis added
• “[a] servant may abandon his master’s employment for the time to accomplish some purpose of his own” and, “[i]f in accomplishing this purpose he does an injury to another, his master is not liable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).