Howard v. JH Harvey Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The test of liability is whether the tort was done within the scope of the actual transaction of the master’s business for accomplishing ends of his employment.”
• “All three prongs of the test must focus on the occasion when the injury occurred rather than the work relationship in general.”
• because store security guard approached suspected shoplifter to accomplish ends of employment - to prevent shoplifting — and for no personal reason, question of fact remained as to whether employer could be held liable for guard’s tortious actions under respondeat superior theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).