DHANRAJ v. POTOMAC ELEC. POWER CO.

No. 75, September Term, 1985.

305 Md. 623 (1986)

506 A.2d 224

DEONARINE DHANRAJ ET UX. v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 27, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric S. Slatkin (Karl G. Feissner, John E. Beckman, Jr. and Feissner & Beckman, on brief), Langley Park, for appellant.

John Noble (Alexander J. Crow and Simpson, Simpson & Noble, on brief, Rockville, and H. Edward Holtz, on brief, Upper Marlboro), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.


COUCH, Judge.

This appeal requires us to examine the extent to which an employer can be held vicariously liable for the negligence of an employee when at the time of the alleged negligence, the employee was driving his own vehicle en route to an employer operated training facility.

On the morning of October 18, 1983, Joseph Sandy, an employee of Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), was driving his own automobile to a PEPCO training station located off of...

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