DAVIS GAS CO. v. POWELL

52582.

140 Ga. App. 841 (1976)

232 S.E.2d 258

DAVIS GAS COMPANY v. POWELL et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 30, 1976.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owens & Hilyer, Seymour S. Owens, for appellant.

Reinhardt, Whitley & Sims, Ralph F. Simpson, Willie E. Lockett, Jr., for appellees.


STOLZ, Judge.

1. The central issue in this appeal is whether the acts of defendant-appellant's employees were within the scope and course of their employment so as to impose liability on their employer for the consequences of those acts.

Whatley and Lamb were employees of Davis Gas Company on the date of the death of Patricia Powell Cox. They had been instructed by Hamp Davis, their boss, to go to Harold Ivey's farm that afternoon to pick up wheels for a tobacco...

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