Wren v. Vaca

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

Truck driver Robert E. Yaca had two masters. His employer, American Driver Leasing, Inc. (ADL), leased him to others to drive their tractor-trailer rigs. ADL leased Vaca to Mo-Kan Express, and he was driving a rig on 1-70 in Lafayette County on April 3,1991, for Mo-Kan when he fell asleep. The rig left the highway and Mo-Kan’s employee, Jack Wren, who was sleeping in the tractor’s sleeping compartment, was injured. Wren sued Vaca and ADL.

ADL contends that it did not exercise enough control over Vaca to be vicariously liable for his negligent operation of the rig for…