Read YAMAGUCHI v. HARNSMUT, A095590

Where defendants were held vicariously liable for injuries suffered by a police officer at the hands of their employee, the court erred in not submitting the issue of respondeat superior to the jury because the employee's conduct was not within the scope of his employment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/21/2003
• Published 02/21/2003

Judges

• STEVENS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Rita Gunasekaran, Santa Monica, Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney, Timothy J. Halloran, Christine A. Huntoon, Scott L. Johnson, San Francisco, for Defendants and Appellants., Bennett & Yee, William M. Bennett, Gwendolyn K. Yee, San Francisco, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.