Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v. Idarecis

How courts have described this case

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• deeming it “settled” that “if the defendant owed no duty of care to the plaintiff ... there could be no actionable negligence on [the defendant’s] part”
• “if the defendant owed no duty of care to the plaintiff ..., there could be no actionable negligence on its part”
• although some physical harm occurred in each case due to utility blackout, plaintiffs recovered economic losses either in negligence or as third party beneficiaries of contract for electricity
• plaintiff had right to sue defendant in negligence where alleged poor maintenance of telephone pole caused it to fall, disrupting electrical service to mushroom plant and resulting in destruction of plaintiff’s mushroom crop
• plaintiff had a right to sue defendant in negligence where alleged poor maintenance of telephone pole caused it to fall, disrupting electrical service to mushroom plant and resulting in destruction of plaintiffs mushroom crop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).