JENKINS, DBA MTR. TRSP. v. Cogan

The appellee, Bobby Trenton Cogan, brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Warren County against the appellant, Don Jenkins d/b/a Motor Transportation Service, seeking the recovery of damages, actual and punitive, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as the result of a liquefied petroleum gas explosion. Liability of the appellant was predicated upon the alleged negligence of Clifton Willis, a servant and em ployee of the appellant, allegedly acting in furtherance of his master’s business and within the real or apparent scope of his authority, in undertaking to remove from…