Chester v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to find the “firmly entrenched common law principle” of plaintiffs sole right to choose her defendant abrogated by the Tort Claims Act even when the result was to make a nonsettling defendant liable for a greater share of the damages
• on appeal from order requiring plaintiff to join parties as defendants, Court recognized common law right of tort plaintiff to choose her defendant
• noting the “strong public policy favoring the settlement of disputes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).