Lane v. Central Bank of Alabama, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing the “tort of negligent supervision of an employee” as holding an employer “responsible for his [employee’s] incompetency when notice of knowledge, either actual or presumed, of such unfitness has been brought to him”
• an essential element of negligent supervision is the employer's notice of the employee's improper conduct
• “‘Liability depends upon its being established by affirmative proof that such incompe- tency was actually known by the master or that, had he exercised due and proper diligence, he would have learned that which would charge him in the law with such knowledge.’”
• “‘Liability depends upon its being established by affirmative proof that such incompe- tency was actually known by the master or that, had he exercised due and proper diligence, he would have learned that which would charge him in the law with such knowledge.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).