Court Opinion

ID: 9578421
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:45:07.949705+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:24:55.621385
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Pannell, Judge,
concurring specially. As stated by me in Merry Bros. Brick & Tile Co. v. Jackson, 120 Ga. App. 716, 719 (171 SE2d 924), "ordinarily one is not the servant of two masters, but the courts of this State have recognized the principle that one may be the servant of two masters and subject to the demands of both or either. See Hotel Equipment Co. Liddell, 32 Ga. App. 590, 592 (124 SE 92); Allen v. Landers, 39 Ga. App. 264, 265 (146 SE 794).”
I concurred in the case of Forrester v. Scott, 125 Ga. App. 245 (187 SE2d 323) and see no reason under the facts in that case, and this case, why the plaintiff could not be found to be the servant of both the general contractor and the subcontractor.
I do not construe the holding in Forrester v. Scott, 125 Ga. App. 245, supra, to be that evidence demanded that plaintiffs’ deceased was the sole employee of the special master, but only that he was an employee. A careful reading of the majority opinion in that case, to me, shows that he can be the servant of both. I see no conflict in concurring in both decisions and in holding as I understand this court held in Scott v. Savannah Electric &c. Co., 84 Ga. App. 553, 556 (66 SE2d 179).
*767I am authorized to state that Judge Deen concurs in this special concurrence.