Dhanraj v. Potomac Electric Power Co.

COUCH, Judge.

This appeal requires us to examine the extent to which an employer can be held vicariously liable for the negligence of an employee when at the time of the alleged negligence, the employee was driving his own vehicle en route to an employer operated training facility.

On the morning of October 18, 1983, Joseph Sandy, an employee of Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), was driving his own automobile to a PEPCO training station located off of Benning Road in Washington, D.C. He carried one passenger, a fellow PEPCO employee. Normally, the two men worked at the Dickerson, Maryland…