Board of Education v. Sargent, Webster, Crenshaw & Folley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that permitting apportionment of liability in actions arising from breach of contract would “do violence” to settled principles of contract law
• stating that the “adjudicated tort-feasor [can] seek contribution, or ‘partial indemnity’, from another tort-feasor whether or not the second tort-feasor had been made a party to the action”
• codifying Dole v. Dow Chem. Co., 30 N.Y.2d 143, 331 N.Y.S.2d 382, 282 N.E.2d 288 (1972)
• codifying Dole v. Dow Chem. Co., 30 N.Y.2d 143, 331 N.Y.S.2d 382, 282 N.E.2d 288 (1972)
• denying contribution because there was “no legal duty independent of appellant’s contractual obligations”
• upholding dismissal of negligence claim where “only pecuniary damages” were sought

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).