Caton v. Haynes

Hunt, Justice.

We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in TimberBank, Inc. v. Haynes, 192 Ga. App. 878 (386 SE2d 861) (1989) to determine whether the president of the closely-held corporation in this case could be personally liable for tortiously interfering with an employment contract between the corporation and an employee where the officer acted on the corporation’s behalf regarding the contract. The facts, more fully set forth in the Court of Appeals’ opinion, are as follows.

Catón formed a corporation, TimberBank, to manage his stepbrother’s timberland in Mississippi and to seek out…