Pelletier v. Bilbiles

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding vicarious liability when battery on customer followed employer’s direction not to permit mischief in store
• employee assaulted customer who littered in store in “misguided method of discouraging patrons” from causing disturbances
• \A master is liable for the wilful torts of his servant committed within the scope of the servant's employment and in furtherance of his master's business.\
• “[A] master is liable for the wilful torts of his servant committed within the scope of the servant’s employment and in furtherance of his master’s business.”
• employee's battery of plaintiff who blew paper onto floor could be found by jury to be misguided attempt to perform job duty of preventing disturbances at store, and thus within the scope of employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).