Atlanta Baseball Co. v. Lawrence

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The conduct of McLaughlin, the pitcher, in leaving his place upon the grounds and coming into the grandstand, and assaulting the plaintiff, was not within the scope of his employment nor in the prosecution of his master’s business, but was his own personal affair in resenting a real or fancied insult. “If a servant steps aside from his master’s business, for however short a time, to do an act entirely disconnected from it, and injury results to another from such independent voluntary act, the servant may be liable, but the master is not liable.” Savannah…