Opinion ID: 1610222
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Heading: whether a jury instruction on negligent supervision should have been given.

Text: ¶ 12. Tillman offered, but was refused, a jury instruction on a theory of negligent supervision of Powe by Singletary, the more experienced boatman. Singletary was a more experienced boater, and he had a superior knowledge of the river and its riparian usage. Powe described Singletary as his back seat driver. Singletary advised Powe how to go around the lead boat. ¶ 13. A person conducting an activity through servants or other agents is subject to liability for harm resulting from his conduct if he is negligent or reckless: (a) in giving improper or ambiguous orders or in failing to make proper regulations; or (b) in the employment of improper persons or instrumentalities in work involving risk or harm to others; (c) in the supervision of the activity; or (d) in permitting, or failing to prevent, negligent or other tortious conduct by persons, whether or not his servants or agents, upon premises or with instrumentalities under his control. Restatement (Second) of Agency § 213 (1958). ¶ 14. A party has the right to embody its theories of the case in the jury instructions provided there is testimony and/or evidence to support it, and if the instructions are conditioned upon the jury finding that such facts existed. Reese v. Summers, 792 So.2d 992, 994 (Miss.2001). There was a sufficient basis of facts for the granting of plaintiff's instruction P-5, the instruction on negligent supervision. The trial court erred in failing to put this instruction to the jury.