Worker's Horseplay Was Outside Scope of Employment

A poultry company whose employee swept a truck driver into a “bear hug” and pushed him into a stack of pallets can’t be held liable for the worker’s actions because horseplay was not “an authorized act within the scope of (his) employment,” the Court of Appeals of Mississippi decided last week. In a unanimous opinion released Feb. 13, the appellate court upheld the Circuit Court of Jones County’s decision to grant summary judgment to Southern Hens, A.J. Caldwell’s employer. Truck driver Wayne Booth delivered products for Sou...