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).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Walmart Stores East L. P. v. Benson.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-04· cited 11×
• Barnes v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18· cited 5×
• Meyn America, LLC v. Tarheel Distributors, Inc.
  M.D. Georgia· 2014-08-04· cited 4×
• Deena Barnes v. Richard Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-14· cited 645×
• Cowart v. Widener
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 430×
• City of Gainesville v. Dodd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 257×
• National Tax Funding v. Harpagon Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 71×
• Bankers Health & Life Insurance v. Fryhofer
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-06-16· cited 32×
• CDP Event Services, Inc. v. Atcheson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 20×
• Beasley v. a Better Gas Co., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-08-05· cited 19×
• Ken Thomas of Georgia, Inc. v. Halim
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-25· cited 15×
• Fields Bros. General Contractors, Inc. v. Ruecksties
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-30· cited 13×
• Denson Heating & Air Conditioning Co. v. Oglesby
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-08· cited 12×