United Transport Inc. v. Wilson

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

The question is: Was appellant’s employee, a truck driver, acting within the scope of his employment when he injured appellee? Over appellant’s objections, the question was submitted to a jury which gave appellee $1,250 actual damages and $500 exemplary damages.

We agree with appellant that the record contains no substantial evidence to support the above verdict and the judgment of the Court.

On December 31, 1957 Ernest Eugene Wilson, the estranged husband of appellee, was driving appellant’s truck from Memphis through Texarkana, enroute to Tulsa, carrying a load of…