Perrault v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring a plaintiff to allege, in relevant part, that the employer knew or should have known that the employee was capable of inflicting harm of some sort
• granting summary judgment in favor of employer on vicarious liability claim when employee used company car to drive to a bar because this deviation “was neither incident to [employee’s] duties nor conduct he was hired to perform”
• “Walton was hired as a temporary crane operator to unload coal from a ship.... Driving a car from a bar to his hotel was neither incident to these duties nor conduct he was hired to perform.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).