Dettmering v. United States

ORDER

ALBERT J. HENDERSON, Jr., District Judge.

The question before the court is whether a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, traveling in her own private automobile from her duty station to an annual leave address for a purpose entirely personal in nature, before traveling to Washington, D. C., for temporary duty, by commercial airlines, can be said to be within the “scope of her employment”, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and the Georgia doctrine of respondeat superior. The court holds that, under these circumstances, such a civilian employee is not within the “scope of her…