Pamela M. Fowler, Etc. v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad Co.

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• discussing the meaning of “within the scope of employment” to determine liability under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), 45 U.S.C. § 51
• applying “scope of employment” test, which includes acts incidental to the employment as well as the actual work, to plaintiff alleging employer’s direct negligence
• \[T]he proper test for scope of employment in an FELA case [is] whether the act was one which the employer might reasonably have foreseen and which the employee might reasonably have thought necessary in the interest of or in the benefit of the employer.\

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