Kasner v. Gage

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• observing that the court has customarily relied on a provision of the Restatement of Agency that assigns personal liability for the consequences of another’s intentional conduct if the assignor intends the conduct or its consequences
• employer not liable for theft of competitor’s records, where acts of employee in stealing records, as a matter of law, were outside the scope of employment or agency relationship
• sales corporation not liable for its agent’s misappropriation of a competitor’s records because such conduct was neither authorized nor incidental to authorized conduct and, therefore, was not within the scope of the agency
• sales corporation not liable for its agent's misappropriation of a competitor's records because such conduct was neither authorized nor incidental to authorized conduct and, therefore, was not within the scope of the agency
• no liability to master for unauthorized conduct of agent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).