Canter v. Koehring Company
- Decided
- September 24, 1973
- Docket
- 52870
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
Cited 2,946 timesSuperseded by statute (verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded by statute (3 of 54 verified; none is a verified overruling) · State v. Williams
What later courts said
- finding that Pittsburgh Plate “had delegated to these engineers whatever responsibilities it had for furnishing engineering specifications, services, and instructions under its contract with Industrial” — Stansbury v. McCarty Corporation (2022)
- “[P]ersonal liability cannot be imposed upon the ... employee simply because of his general administrative responsibility for performance of some function of the employment.” — Cynthia Ayers v. ANR Pipeline Company, et a (2016)
- this disapprobation not reaching the principle for which the case is cited here — Friar v. Caterpillar, Inc. (1988)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
283 So.2d 716 (1973) Mrs. Evelyn CANTER, Individually and as Tutrix, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Relators, v. KOEHRING COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants-Respondents.
No. 52870.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
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