Pinnix v. Griffin

"We think the evidence was sufficient to be submitted to the jury on the question of Griffin’s negligence. That question does not seem to have been raised in the court below and needs no extended discussion here. But, regardless of Griffin’s negligence, which one must assume the jury might have found, the appellee strenuously insists that there is nothing in the evidence that would impute such negligence to it, on the doctrine respondeat superior. It is argued that the evidence fails to show that Griffin, its employee,'was about his employer’s business at the time of the alleged negligent…