As the motion court held, even if the grocery deliveryman, Martinez, were to be considered an employee of either of the moving defendants, the record establishes that he was on a personal errand when his vehicle struck plaintiff's decedent, neither making nor returning from a delivery. Therefore, the moving defendants cannot be held liable on the theory of respondeat superior (see, Lundberg v State of New York,
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