United States Fourth Circuit

Summary judgment against plaintiff's suit, alleging that defendant-employer is liable for injuries caused by one of its employees, is reversed where there is a genuine issue of material fact concerning whether the employee's violent propensities should have been discovered by defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2004
• Published 10/25/2004

Judges

• Before WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges, and Richard D. BENNETT, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Monica Taylor Monday, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellant.  John Dickens Eure, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  S.D. Roberts Moore, Andrew E. Carpenter, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellant.  Brian J. Brydges, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.