Blackshear v. Clark

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasoning that a doctor and his employer were “(at least) ‘severally’ liable for the same injury to plaintiff” where the employer’s liability was “derived solely from” the doctor’s alleged negligence
• Release of master not release of servant; the court expressly reserved decision where servant is released but not the master
• “In short, it makes no difference whether the [entity’s] liability is based upon the doctrine of [r]espondeat superior or any other legal concept. The point is that both [parties] are (at least) ‘severally’ liable for the same injury to [the] plaintiff.”
• interpreting the 1939 version of the Act
• release of hospital/employer does not release doctor/employee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).