Jane and Milo M. Loucks v. R.J. Reynolds

An employe, a tobacco salesman and distributor of advertising matter, assigned exclusively to a given territory of five counties, violated his employers instructions: (a) As to where he was to do his work; (b) as to where he was to work on a certain particular day; (c) as to the use of an automobile furnished him by his employer to be used in its work only; and (d) in deciding that he would go in such car into a territory foreign to his own field on a week-end fishing trip and therein post some signs, advertising matter, for his employer. En route on such trip and while far afield from the boundaries of his own territory, he collided with another car, injuring the plaintiff, a passenger therein: Held: