McMillan v. Oconee Memorial Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a motion for a directed verdict should be denied when either the evidence yields more than one inference or its inference is in doubt
• noting further, “a civil conspiracy cannot exist when the alleged acts arise in the context of a principal-agent relationship because by virtue of the relationship such acts do not involve separate entities”
• “[T]his Court has held that agents for a corporation acting in the scope of their duties cannot conspire with the corporation absent the guilty knowledge of a third party,”
• “[W]e believe that it is well settled that a corporation cannot conspire with itself”
• “no conspiracy can exist if the conduct challenged is a single act by a single corporation acting exclusively through its own directors, officers, and employees, each acting within the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).