Dillard's, Inc. v. Newman

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether official immunity extends to a governmental employee privately working as an off-duty security guard. Appellant, Shane Watson, presents a sole issue in this interlocutory appeal from an order denying summary judgment. Appellees, Shirley Newman and Jill Watkins, filed suit against Watson, and others, alleging he committed a variety of intentional torts causing injury to them. Watson, a Potter County Deputy Sheriff, filed a motion for summary judgment based upon, among other theories, a claim of official…