United Salt Corp. v. McKee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer is not foreclosed from litigating issues of negligence, respondeat superior, and damages based on an employee’s default
• holding that an employer is not foreclosed from litigating issues of negligence, respondeat superior, and damages based on an employee's default
• stating that “where the liability of one defendant necessarily depends upon the liability of others,” and one defendant defaults, “[t]he true mode of proceeding ... is simply to enter a default ... against him, and proceed with the cause upon the answers of the other defendants”
• corporate defendant was not prejudiced by finding of liability against employees as long as corporate defendant was allowed to contest negligent entrustment, respondeat superior, and damages
• corporate defendant was not prejudiced by finding of liability against employees as long as corporate defendant was allowed to contest negligent en-trustment, respondeat superior, and damages
• “The proper procedure to be followed in cases involving multiple defendants is an issue of substantial public interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).