Under which of the following circumstances would it not be possible to award punitive damages against a principal for the actions of an agent? Question 2 :
a) An employee who is making a delivery for his employer negligently collides with another vehicle, injuring the driver. Although this was the employee's fifth accident for which he was responsible in the last 4 weeks, the employer refused to fire the employee.
b) A manager at a local supermarket tackles a 6-year-old child who he believes is taking a candy bar without paying for it, breaking the child's leg.
c) An employer who operated a night club told his employee to physically remove a patron from the night club, using any and all means necessary. The employee physically evicted the patron for the night club, bruising his arm in the process.
d) An employee was sent to repossess a car from a delinquent borrower. The employee telephoned his employer and told him that the borrower was sitting in the car and refusing to budge. The employer told the employee: "You have my consent to physically remove the borrower from the car, even if you have to break his arm to do so!"