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Fruit v. Equitable Life Assurance Society
Citation:
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The plaintiff was involved in a car accident with the defendant’s employee. The plaintiff’s leg was crushed between his parked automobile and the colliding vehicle owned and driven by the defendant’s employee, Clay Fruit. The leg had to be amputated as a result of the accident. At the time of the incident, Fruit was a life insurance salesman attending a sales convention operated by the defendant. Sales employees of the defendant were required to attend the convention. During the convention, multiple sales persons drank and socialized at multiple occasions, including a bar called the Waterfront. Fruit was driving back from this bar, in a failed search to find some of his companions, when he got into the accident with the plaintiff.
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