Baker v. Schafer’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “On August 5, 1993, plaintiff was driving south on State Road 62 in his tractor-trailer near Madison, Indiana. Schafer was driving north and towing a two-wheeled trailer. Somehow, the trailer came unhooked from Schafer’s vehicle, veered into the southbound lane, and collided with the plaintiffs truck. The police arrived at the scene, Schafer reported his personal insurance information, and Schafer called his primary employer — the school corporation — for assistance in reloading equipment that had been on the trailer. Neither Schafer’s privately owned vehicle, nor his trailer, nor his clothing, nor his statements at the time of the accident gave any indication that he was traveling in the course of his duties as Superintendent of the Jefferson County Regional Sewage District No. 1,_”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gregor v. Szarmach