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SAYLES v. PICCADILLY CAFETERIAS, INC.

Record No. 901525.

410 S.E.2d 632 (1991)

Charles SAYLES v. PICCADILLY CAFETERIAS, INC.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 8, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter H. Emroch, Richmond, for appellant.

Richard W. Schaffer, Richmond (Frank B. Miller, III, S. Vernon Priddy, III, Robert B. Delano, Jr., Henry S. Carter, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

STEPHENSON, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a negligent employee acted outside the scope of his employment, as a matter of law, thereby defeating a third-party claim of damages against his employer under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

Charles Sayles, a passenger in an automobile operated by Theodore Bolling, Jr., was seriously and permanently injured in a two-car collision. The negligent operator

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