West Ex Rel. West v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

A number of the plaintiff’s exceptive assignments of error are directed to the failure of the trial court to properly explain the law in respect to the liability of an employer for the torts of an employee committed while about the master’s business in the scope of his employment, and to apply the same to the evidence in the cause. The plaintiff complains that the court below failed to adequately differentiate between actual and implied authority and to explain to the jury that under tbe law an employer is liable for tbe tort of bis employee committed while acting in tbe scope of bis…