Coe v. Carroll & Carroll, Inc.

The undisputed evidence in this case establishes that, as a matter of law, neither the contractor Carroll nor the trucking company Griffin can be liable for the consequences of the truck driver Williams’s personal and unauthorized decision to drive past six restaurants and some miles off his route to pick up his lunch at a church. I therefore dissent to Divisions 1 and 2 of the majority opinion.

1. It is longstanding law that where a party hires a vehicle but has

“no supervision or control of the servant’s mechanical operation thereof, and no right to discharge the driver and take over the…