Morrison v. Anderson

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• holding that bar was not liable to plaintiff under a theory of respondeat superior because although bar's waitress followed plaintiff outside to collect money from another patron, her hugging plaintiff, which caused him to fall off a loading dock, was disconnected from bar's business
• affirming grant of summary judgment to proprietor where invitee fell off a loading dock at a restaurant he had visited “three or four times a week for ten years,” the edge of the loading dock “was in plain view,” and the invitee had equal knowledge of any hazard
• waitress’s acts of following patrons outside the restaurant and hugging them were purely personal acts and outside the scope of her employment
• summary judgment proper where evidence showed that plaintiff had equal knowledge there was no railing on loading dock from which he fell

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