PJC General Negligence 2024

C ONTENTS

PJC 7.13

Question and Instruction for Imputing Liability for Exemplary Damages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

[Chapters 8 and 9 are reserved for expansion.]

C HAPTER 10

A GENCY AND S PECIAL R ELATIONSHIPS

PJC 10.1

Employee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

PJC 10.2

Borrowed Employee—Liability of Borrowing Employer . . . . . 130

PJC 10.3

Borrowed Employee—Lending Employer’s Rebuttal Instruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Borrowed Employee—Disjunctive Submission of Liability of Lending or Borrowing Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

PJC 10.4

PJC 10.5

Employment as Defense under Workers’ Compensation Act . . . 133

PJC 10.6

Scope of Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

PJC 10.7

Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

PJC 10.8

Independent Contractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

PJC 10.9

Independent Contractor by Written Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

PJC 10.10

Respondeat Superior—Nonemployee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

PJC 10.11

Joint Enterprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

PJC 10.12

Negligent Entrustment—Reckless, Incompetent, or Unlicensed Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

PJC 10.13

Negligent Entrustment—Defective Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

PJC 10.14

Negligent Undertaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

PJC 10.15

Imputing Gross Negligence to a Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

C HAPTER 11

T RESPASS

PJC 11.1

Trespass Actions Generally—When to Apply (Comment). . . . . 157

PJC 11.2

Trespass to Real Property—Basic Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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