Case Name: Wallace v. Kimball Company
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1917-07-25
Citations: 20 Ga. App. 617
Docket Number: 8658
Parties: Wallace v. Kimball Company.
Judges: Wade, G. J., and Luke, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 20
Pages: 617–617

Head Matter:
8658.
Wallace v. Kimball Company.
Decided July 25, 1917.
Action for damages; from Fulton superior court—Judge Pendleton. December 7, 1916.
Neufville & Neufville, for plaintiff.
William E. Arnaud, for defendant.

Opinion:
George, J.
If it be conceded that, under the allegations of the petition, the defendant's foreman in charge of its packing and shipping department was its vice-principal, it nevertheless appears, from further allegations of the petition, that, as to the negligence on his part which brought about the injury, he was a mere fellow servant of the plaintiff. The petition, therefore, was properly dismissed on general demurrer. While doing a servant's work engaged solely in executing the ordinary details of labor in connection with another servant, a foreman who' in other respects stands in the place of the master is a fellow servant, and his negligence therein will not render the master liable to the other servant, except where the master is a railroad company. Civil Code (1910), § 3129; Studevant v. Blue Springs Lumber Co., 16 Ga. App. 668 (3) (85 S. E. 977), and eases there cited.
Judgment affirmed.
Wade, G. J., and Luke, J., concur.