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SOUTHEAST CONSULTANTS v. McCRARY ENG. CORP.

36307, 36308.

246 Ga. 503 (1980)

273 S.E.2d 112

SOUTHEAST CONSULTANTS, INC. et al. v. McCRARY ENGINEERING CORPORATION; and vice versa.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Elsner, Garett Backman, T. Thomas Vance, for appellants (Case No. 36307).

Henry M. Hatcher, Jr., for McCrary Engineering Corporation.

James R. Henson, Robert A. Elsner, Garett Backman, Macon Gooch, J. Thomas Vance, for appellees (Case No. 36308).

HILL, Justice.

This is the first occasion this court has had to consider the duty of a corporate officer or employee not to appropriate a "business opportunity" of his corporation. The prohibition on appropriation of a business opportunity was first introduced into Georgia law as part of the comprehensive revision of our corporation law in 1968. That revision was patterned in part on the Model Business Corporation Act. However the provision in issue here, Ga. L. 1968...

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