Hargett's Telephone Contractors, Inc. v. McKeehan

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “an employee’s trip is not a ‘special mission’ if it involves nothing more than travel to his or her usual place of work”
• reversing denial of employer’s motion for summary judgment because employee’s conduct in traveling to multiple job sites, as his job normally required, could “in no way be considered a ‘special mission’ or errand done at the direction of his employer”
• travel to and from work on nonwork day not made at request of employer is not within scope of employment
• “an employee’s trip is not a ‘special mission’ if it involves nothing more than travel to his or her usual place of work.”
• to fit within the exception, “the errand or mission itself must be a ‘special’ or uncustomary one made at the employer’s request or direction,” otherwise “the [special mission] exception would devour the general rule of no liability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).