Padgett v. Neptune Water Meter Co., Inc.

The appellant, Booker T. Padgett, was an employee of Neptune Water Meter Company. He filed a complaint in Macon County Circuit Court against Neptune and certain coemployees, alleging that the coemployees had intentionally injured him. Specifically, Padgett claimed that his supervisors at Neptune — Clyde Mundy, Hank Golden, Charlie Trussel, and appellee Cleveland Jackson — had intentionally caused him injury by forcing him to do work that he says the supervisors knew was against the orders of Padgett's doctor.

The trial court entered summary judgments in favor of Neptune and Jackson and made…