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LATEX FILLER & CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. v. CHAPMAN

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139 Ga. App. 382 (1976)

228 S.E.2d 312

LATEX FILLER & CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. et al. v. CHAPMAN.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided July 2, 1976.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Clinton Sumner, Jr., for appellant.

Mitchell, Mitchell, Coppedge & Boyett, Warren N. Coppedge, Jr., Mundy & Gammage, E. Lamar Gammage, Jr., for appellee.

CLARK, Judge.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether a pending tort claim against a master based on the doctrine of respondent superior acts as a bar to a simultaneous tort action against the master's servant.

This litigation arose out of a collision between a truck, driven by Eldon Peters and owned by Latex Filler & Chemical Company (appellants), and an automobile, operated by Nellie M. Chapman...

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