McLean v. St. Regis Paper Co.

This is an action for personal injuries and damages in which the plaintiffs, Fulton and Dorothy McLean, sought to establish the vicarious liability of defend ant, St. Regis Paper Company, for the negligent actions of defendant, Alan Roland. A jury rejected plaintiff’s theories that Roland was either an employee or agent of St. Regis at the time the car he was driving rolled backward down a hill, crushing Mrs. McLean against the wall of a building. Plaintiff’s principal contention is that an agency was established as a matter of law, creating vicarious liability by application of the doctrine…