Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Dowdy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, even when employer knew of plaintiff’s depression and when their actions aggravated that depression, defendants owed no duty to plaintiff that would support a negligence claim
• refusing to recognize a “duty of reasonable care imposed upon an employer in the supervision of its employees”
• stating, “there is no duty of reasonable care imposed upon an employer in the supervision of its employees.”
• \[T]here is no duty of reasonable care imposed upon an employer in the supervision of its employees under these circumstances and we will not create one here.\
• “In Virginia there is no duty of reasonable care imposed upon an employer in the supervision of its employees . . . and we will not create one here.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).