· 4/9/1879
Briggs v. Milburn
Citations
- 40 Mich. 512
- 1879 Mich. LEXIS 606
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that, in light of Brown, the other-tort-resulting-in-personal-injury provision applies only to “other torts of the same nature and kind ‘resulting in personal injury’ ” as the specifically enumerated torts (emphasis omitted)
- principal is responsible for torts of agent committed within course of employment or line of duty, in effort to further principal’s business, and not for “purpose personal to himself’
- “good faith” determinative of liability
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Judges: Campbell, Other
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