While questions of whether an employee's actions fall within the scope of his employment are ordinarily questions of fact for a jury, where there are no disputed facts and there is no question that the employee's acts fall outside the scope of his employment, as here, the determination becomes one of law for the court and not one of fact for the jury (see, e.g., Horowitz v Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
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