Kinetics, Inc. v. El Paso Products Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that because “the respondeat superior form of vicarious liability is imposed upon one party through a legal fiction, the parties are not joint tortfeasors”
• discussing effect of dismissal of partnership from lawsuit on liability of partner and company of which partner was wholly-owned subsidiary
• affirming directed verdict where directly liable parties were dismissed, because dismissal of directly liable entity “destroyed” the “means by which liability was imputed” to the vicariously liable party
• release of party with direct liability discharges parties with vicarious liability because not joint tort-feasors within the Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).