Linam v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that the flight instructor was still “acting within . . . the scope of his employment when he continued to operate the plane [for his own enjoyment] after he had ordered plaintiff to release the controls” because operating the plane was part of his job duties
• in order for master to be liable under respondeat superior, servant’s acts need not fall within his authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).