· 4/15/1847
Porter v. Bullard
Citations
- 26 Me. 448
How courts have described this case
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- concluding in part that because the employees were acting within the scope of their employment, suit “could have been brought” against the governmental unit under the Act
- “If the purpose of serving the employer’s business motivates the employee, his acts are within the scope of employment.”
- “If the purpose of serving the employer’s business motivates the employee, his acts are within the scope of employment.”
- “If the purpose of serving the employer’s business motivates the employee, his acts are within the scope of employment.”
- fact that conduct may be driven by personal motives does not prevent act from being within scope of employment
- in evaluating whether school officials were acting within general scope of employment, considering their act to be general act of evaluating faculty performance instead of tort-specific act of fraudulently removing faculty
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Judges: Shepley
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