Haygood v. Bell

1. When the plaintiff’s evidence showed that the individual who ran against her with a bicycle was employed by the defendant merchant as a delivery boy, that the merchant kept the particular bicycle for the use of this servant in delivering packages to customers, and that at the time the plaintiff was struck this employee was operating the bicycle upon a street in the usual manner, the jury were authorized to infer that the servant was at the time operating the machine within the scope of his employment in the master’s service, and the burden of evidence was then shifted to the defendant to…