Browne v. Turner Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where the hirer breaches a duty arising under general tort principles, nothing in [the Privette line of] cases suggests that it may not be liable.”
• “Pri- or to these eases it was widely held that the hirer could be liable to [an independent contractor’s employees] for breach of a duty, often referred to as ‘nondelegable,’ to protect workers from harm arising from a ‘peculiar risk’ inherent in the work.”
• exercise of power to remove safety systems and devices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).