Board of Education v. Plymouth Rubber Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Under Maryland law, negligent breach of a contract, absent a duty or obligation imposed by a source independent of that arising out of the contract itself, is not enough to sustain an action sounding in tort”
• construction of contract is ordinarily considered to be an issue of law for resolution by trial judge but where there is legitimate doubt as to application under the circumstances, a question of fact is presented
• “Under Maryland law, negligent breach of contract, absent a duty or obligation imposed by a source independent of that arising out of the contract itself, is not enough to sustain an action sounding in tort”
• “Under Maryland law, negligent breach of contract, absent a duty or obligation imposed by a source independent of that arising out of the contract itself, is not enough to sustain an action sounding in tort”
• finding summary judgment improper because warranty provision was ambiguous
• applying section 5-101 to fraud and civil conspiracy claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).