Donovan v. Abbott Worsted Mills, Inc.

By the trial court’s findings, the plaintiff was an overseer in the defendant’s mill at Wilton. It was a part of his work “to order and have on hand when needed supplies and parts required to keep the looms in good workable condition and repair or supervise repairs to the looms when necessary.” He was hurt while driving his son’s automobile from Wilton to Manchester where he was going to buy some material needed to correct a defective process in the manufacture of cloth at the mill.

The defendant’s exception rests on two grounds, one, that the plaintiff was not acting within the scope of his…