Case ID: ri_26/html/0125-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Walter G. Sekator vs. Patrick Lannon et al.
    
    WASHINGTON
    APRIL 18, 1904.
    Present: Stiness, C. J., Tillinghast and Douglas, JJ.
    (1) Pleading. Case and, Trespass. Master and Servant.
    
    A master can not be held liable for an assault committed by his servant without cause or provocation, and not within the scope of the servant’s employment or done with authority from the master. »
    Trespass on the Case.
    Heard on demurrer to declaration, and demurrer sustained.
    
      F. C. Olney, for plaintiff.
    
      Thos. H. Holton, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

The action is trespass on the case, and the declaration alleges a violent assault by a servant of the defendant, without cause or provocation, but it does not show that it was done with authority from the master, or within the scope of the servant’s employment.

These facts must appear before the master can be held liable. Mossessian v. Callender, 24 R. I. 168; Howe v. Newmarch; 12 Allen, 49.

Demurrer to the declaration sustained.