Dempsey v. Southeastern Industrial Contracting Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• generally, \an officer of a corporation who takes no part in the commission of a tort committed by the corporation is not personally liable unless he specifically directed the particular act to be done or participated or cooperated therein\
• “mere fact that an injury occurred during a period when [a corporate officer] was responsible for employee training and dispatch is not sufficient to support an inference that the injury was caused by some actionable negligence on [the corporate officer’s] part.”
• “mere fact that an injury occurred during a period when [a corporate officer] was responsible for employee training and dispatch is not sufficient to support an inference that the injury was caused by some actionable negligence on [the corporate officer’s] part.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).