CLARKE v. CITY OF NEW YORK


178 A.D.2d 458 (1991)

Denys Clarke, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 9, 1991


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is dismissed.

The jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant cannot be sustained on the basis of general principles of respondeat superior because the evidence in the record establishes conclusively that at the time of the incident the defendant's employee was acting in furtherance of motives unrelated to the defendant...

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