Gina Chin & Associates, Inc. v. First Union Bank

In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court erred in striking the evidence at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case-in-chief by ruling, as a matter of law, that a bank teller who participated in a scheme to deposit forged checks was acting outside the scope of his employment, thus relieving his employer from civil liability for those acts.

BACKGROUND

Under well settled principles of law, we will review the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the non-moving party. See, e.g., Lenders Financial Corp. v. Talton, 249 Va. 182, 188, 455 S.E.2d 232, 236 (1995).

In 1994, Henry…