Donna Gayle Holcomb v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that as a general rule, under Georgia law, there is no duty to control the conduct of third persons to prevent them from causing physical harm to others
• noting that under “the doctrine of respondeat superior, . . . the principal is entirely responsible for the agent’s negligence,” and fault “cannot be apportioned between the principal and the agent/tortfeasor”
• “We must assume that the General Assembly weighed the costs and the benefits before enacting the statute.”
• “We must assume that the General Assembly weighed the costs and the benefits before enacting the statute.”
• “We must assume that the General Assembly weighed the costs and the benefits before enacting the statute.”
• “A statute is ambiguous when it is susceptible of more than one natural and reasonable interpretation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).