Williams v. Community Drive-In Theater, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• employer not liable under doctrine of respondeat superior for employee's assault when not committed in furtherance of employer's interest
• employer not liable under doctrine of respondeat superior for employee’s assault when not committed in furtherance of employer’s interest
• despite the fact that the employee was not paid by her employer for her services, she was the employer’s employee at the crucial time
• “if ... an employee is motivated entirely by personal reasons such as malice or spite or by a desire to accomplish some unlawful purpose and does not have for its purpose the furtherance of the employer’s business, it will be considered personal to the employee”
• scope of employment defined and applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).