Chris Clausell v. Jeffrey Bourque

How courts have described this case

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• further holding that “[t]he usual case is that the obligor must use reasonable care in his performance of the contractual duty.”
• “[E]ven if [defendant] had a contractual obligation ..., [plaintiff] has failed to show that breaching that contract was a breach of a duty of care ... under a negligence theory.”
• \[T]he breach of a contract (whether described as negligent or not) is not actionable in tort under an ordinary negligence theory unless breaching the contract also breached a duty of care recognized by tort law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).