Liability for torts of spouse, child, or servant in certain instances
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Middlebrooks v. Hillcrest Foods, Inc. (2001)
Most recently applied in Newcomb v. Spring Creek Cooler Inc. (June 2019)
of Code section. — The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decisions in Curtis v
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Every person shall be liable for torts committed by his wife, his child, or his servant by his command or in the prosecution and within the scope of his business, whether the same are committed by negligence or voluntarily. (Orig. Code 1868, § 2904; Code 1868, § 2910; Code 1878, § 2961; Code 1882, § 2961; Civil Code 1895, § 3817; Civil Code 1910,
§ 4413; Code 1933, § 105-108.)
Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.