Atlanta Hub Co. v. Jones

1. It is true that if a servant steps aside from his master’s business, for however short a time, to do an act entirely disconnected with it, and injury results to another from such independent act, the servant may be liable, but the master is not. Atlanta Coco-Cola Bottling Co. v. Brown, 46 Ga. App. 451 (167 S. E. 776). In such a case the act of the servant is not the act of his master, and the latter can not be held liable under the doctrine of respondent superior, or the master and servant theory. Atlanta Baseball Co. v. Lawrence, 38 Ga. App. 497, 499 (144 S. E. 351). However, if a tort…