Wade v. Berkeley County

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• holding a jury could find an animal control officer was acting within the scope of employment when he crashed his personal truck into the plaintiff because the officer was acting on a call concerning a dead dog he had received the previous day
• noting under the doctrine of respondeat superior, an employer is liable for the torts of his employee committed while the employee is acting within the scope of employment
• \Summary judgment is inappropriate when further inquiry into the facts is desirable to clarify proper application of the law.\
• \Summary judgment is inappropriate when further inquiry into the facts is desirable to clarify proper application of the law.\
• \An act falls within the scope of the [employee]'s employment if it was reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose of the [employee]'s employment[] and it was done in furtherance of the [employer]'s business.\
• “For a government employee to be acting within the scope of his official duty or employment, the employee must be (1) “acting in and about the official business of the government entity,” and (2) “performing official duties.” (quoting S.C. Code § 15-78-30(i))

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