Mock v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict entered in favor of the employer in an action for damages for personal injuries sustained when a fellow workman set fire to the plaintiff’s clothing after the clothing had become soaked in acetone during a scuffle with two other workmen in a plywood manufacturing plant.

As the intentional misconduct of the workman who ignited the plaintiff’s clothing was wholly outside the scope of his employment, the employer would not be liable on the theory of respondeat superior. Davis v. Weyerhaeuser Co., 231 Or 596, 604, 373 P2d 985 (1962).…