Boyce v. Greer

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion insofar as it affirms the lower court's ruling on the exception of no cause of action interposed by Mrs. Greer, one of the defendants.

The petition, while open to criticism because of the absence of essential allegations of fact, discloses, in my opinion, a cause of action against Mrs. Greer. It is susceptible of a construction that when the accident happened the negro employee, Arthur Stovall, was acting within the scope of his duties and in furtherance of his employment with Mrs. Greer, and for this reason the case falls within the exception…