Nelson v. Silver Dollar City, Inc.

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• employee not acting within the scope of employment when she went to pick up lunch for herself and a supervisor
• driver’s failure to yield to oncoming traffic while making left turn was sole proximate cause of accident, even if shrubbery obscured view
• employer not liable for an employee’s actions in performing a routine task such as getting food simply because the employer may receive an incidental benefit from the employee’s taking nourishment
• The fact that an hourly employee was paid during her lunch break did not change her personal mission of procuring lunch into a mission on behalf of the employer.
• The fact that an hourly employee was paid during her lunch break did not change her personal mission of procuring lunch into a mission on behalf of the employer.
• employer entitled to summary judgment where employee testified that, at the time of the incident, she was on her way to lunch, and there was no evidence that she was performing any work-related errand at the time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).