82 Or. App. 1 - Chesterman v. Barmon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
March 2009
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Most-quoted passages
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“Liability is for negligently placing an employee with known dangerous propensities, or dangerous propensities which could have been discovered by a reasonable Investigation, in a position where it is foreseeable that he could injure the plaintiff in the course of the work. The duty to use reasonable care in hiring or retaining [an] .employee arises because it is foreseeable that the employee, in carrying out his; employment, may pose an unreasonable risk of injury'to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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