Appellate Court of Illinois, 1916

Schindler v. Link Belt Machinery Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided January 3, 1916 · Holdom

197 Ill. App. 373

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision. Master and servant, § 846*—when act of servant not within scope of employment. The commission of an assault by a servant, who was engaged in guarding employees of the master on their way home during a strike, upon a person unconnected with and uninterested in the strike during a purely personal altercation, was an act without the scope of the employment of the servant so as not to make the master liable.

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