Tulsa General Drivers, Warehousemen, & Helpers Union v. Conley

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• holding that an agent's assault on the target of a picketline could not \properly be contemplated as an incident to the exercise of ordinary authority to act as a peaceable picket\
• holding that an agent’s assault on the target of a picketline could not “properly be contemplated as an incident to the exercise of ordinary authority to act as a peaceable picket”
• holding that “ ‘[i]t is not, as a general rule, within the scope of the servant’s employment to commit an assault upon a third person and the master is not liable for such an assault, though committed while the servant was about his master’s business’”
• explaining that whether there was “a complete departure” from an employee’s scope of employment requires “the weighing of the extent and nature of the deviation, the surrounding facts which characterize and explain it, and the intention and purpose of its making”

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