Hatcher v. General Electric Co.

1 Citing case

  1. General Motors Corporation v. Jenkins

    114 Ga. App. 873 (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)   Cited 13 times
    Reversing the trial court's denial of the defendant manufacturer's general demurrer to the tort action when there was no evidence of the contract forming the agency relationship between the automobile manufacturer and dealership: “it is obvious that the determination of whether the relationship between the manufacturer and dealer is that of principal and agent or that of independent contractors must be determined from the written instrument, and it would be useless to make a determination based on the incomplete allegations of the petition where the instrument, when before the court, might demand a contrary conclusion.”

    I will give but one instance. The case of Hatcher v. General Electric Co., 112 Ga. App. 585 ( 145 S.E.2d 647), is said by the dissent to be authority contrary to the conclusion reached by the majority. In that case the distributor of General Electric's parts had no actual knowledge that the replaced parts were defective or dangerous.