Harkness v. Olcott-Stone Motors

Plaintiff, a car salesman of the Olcott-Stone Motors, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was seriously injured when an automobile of his employer, being driven by one S.E. Free, left the highway a few miles east of Delhi, Louisiana, turned over and was wrecked. He sues the employer and its insurer, the Hardware Mutual Casualty Company, for workman's compensation, alleging permanent total disability. The suit is resisted on the primary ground that at the time of the accident plaintiff was on no mission for his employer but was acting beyond the scope of his employment and on a mission of…