Vanderpool v. Grange Insurance Ass'n

This case involves an action by an injured party seeking to sue an employee after releasing the vicariously liable employer from liability. We reverse the Court of Appeals and hold that release of an employer from vicarious liability does not, by operation of law, release the primarily liable employee.

On February 9, 1982, defendant Gerald Curtis, an employee of defendant Richard Goodman (Goodman), d/b/a Dick's Exhaust, backed a car into the path of Yvonne Van-derpool's car. It is uncontroverted that at the time of the accident Mr. Curtis, an agent, was acting within the course and scope of…