Cummings v. Hoosier Marine Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• negligent failure to shore and brace sewer trenches was collateral to risk created by digging trenches thus precluding liability against contractee
• negligent failure to shore and brace sewer trenches was collateral to risk created by digging trenches thus precluding liability against contractee
• “The fact that the specifications require a contractor to take safety precautions does not impose a specific duty on the part of the owner to enforce the same.”
• plaintiff argued that defendant was liable because it exercized supervision over the construction site
• “an action would fail absent a showing by the plaintiff that in view of the nature of the work and the conditions under which it was to be executed, the defendant should have foreseen that the actual catastrophe which occurred was likely to happen”
• listing the five exceptions to general rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).