Austin v. Consolidation Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that owner of evidence did not have legal duty to preserve evidence for plaintiffs benefit, and plaintiff therefore had no right to force the owner to preserve same and therefore no cause of action for its destruction
• declining to recognize the tort in case of the employer’s spoliation of evidence important to an employee’s suit against third parties
• refusing to recognize intentional or negligent spoliation as independent tort under the facts presented
• declining to recognize a third-party spoliation tort under the facts of the particular case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).