Ransom v. Haner

How courts have described this case

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• observing that appellate court can consider any matter appearing in record to affirm lower court's decree
• holding tortfeasor employee not entitled to employer’s workers’ compensation immunity when statute authorized injured employee to file suit against “third parties” other than employer
• appellee may urge any matter appearing in the record in defense of the judgment even if it was rejected by the trial court
• on appeal, supreme court will not disturb proper result regardless of reasoning employed below
• “[I]f there are any grounds for upholding the summary judgment . . . , regardless of whether they are the grounds set forth by the trial judge, the judgment should be affirmed.”
• employee may directly sue co-employee for latter’s negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).