Claim of Hoffman v. New York Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “reasonable care and competence owed generally by practitioners in the particular trade or profession defines the limits of an injured party’s justifiable demands” in tort for negligent provision of services
• finding an ordinary negligence standard applies to the performance of experts absent an agreement of a higher standard of performance
• declining to impose UCC’s implied warranty of fitness on construction contract
• “[Reasonable care and competence owed general ly by practitioners in the particular trade or profession defines the limits of an injured party’s justifiable demands.”
• design and installation of sprinkler system during erection of building
• discussing dichotomy of sales and services contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).