Baum v. Schweitzer’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““In the present case the defendant’s business was the selling of game and similar provisions to hotels and other consumers. The chauffeur was called upon to begin work very early in the day, and the hours of the actual deliveries to be made by him consumed the entire day. That he went to lunch at a somewhat unusual hour does not under these conditions, indicate that as a matter of law his stopping for lunch was not within the contemplation of the employment. To go seventeen blocks in an automobile in the city of New York is a detour requiring not over ten or fifteen minutes of time..... “There are some aspects of the testimony which throw doubt upon the correctness of the defendant’s version of the facts which has been assumed herein. It was for the jury to pass both upon the correctness of this version and upon the further question whether the deviation, if it occurred, was so material as to constitute a frolic rather than a detour.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Quick