Shipp v. Georgia Power Co.

E. E. Shipp brought an action against Georgia Power Company to recover damages because of an assault on him by one of its bus drivers. He alleged that at the time of the assault the servant was acting in the prosecution of the master’s business and in the scope of his employment. The evidence showed that after the driver of the bus had stopped his bus alongside the automobile which the plaintiff was driving and had then started off the bus struck the left front fender of the plaintiff’s automobile; that the plaintiff then drove his automobile and overtook the bus and stopped alongside it…