MILLER v. QUARLES

Record No. 910101.

410 S.E.2d 639 (1991)

Hugh O. MILLER, et al., v. Fred H. QUARLES.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fancis McQ. Lawrence, Charlottesville (St. John, Bowling & Lawrence, on briefs), for appellants.

Robert M. Musselman, Charlottesville (Ronald M. Huber, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

In this case, we decide whether an agent's negligent performance of his principal's contract subjects the agent to tort liability to the other contracting party.

In 1986, Colonial Electric Company, Inc. (Colonial) was seeking a loan of $45,000,000 to enable it to purchase land and build a hotel and other buildings to be known as Calibogue Gardens at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Hugh Oliver Miller and Lawrence Wayne Burks, president and vice...

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