South Carolina Insurance v. James C. Greene & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• agent cannot impute contributory negligence of another agent to principal to bar principal’s recovery when principal sued agent for negligent performance of his duties
• a cause of action for negligence requires a duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff
• Bell, J., citing the Latin maxims for the proposition that: “The reason for a rule must control the application of the rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).