Lowe v. Jones County

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• holding that because deputies are employees of the sheriff and not the county, a vicarious liability claim against the county for a deputy's conduct is precluded
• holding that because deputies are employees of the sheriff and not the county, a vicarious liability claim against the county for a deputy’s conduct is precluded
• concluding “deputy sheriffs are employees of the sheriff, not the county, and the county cannot be held vicariously liable as their principal”
• holding that the operation of a sheriff’s department is a discretionary act
• concluding “deputy sheriffs are employees of the sheriff, not the county, and the county cannot be held vicariously liable as their principal”
• concluding “deputy sheriffs are employees of the sheriff, not the county, and the county cannot be held vicariously liable as their principal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).