Essex v. New Jersey Bell Telephone Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant utility owed duty to exercise reasonable care in installation of telephones to avoid injury to all within zone of hazard created by its activity
• whether telephone company exercised its duty to ensure that plaintiff would not trip over phone cord was not appropriately decided by summary judgment
• negligent performance of contract may create liability for resulting injury to third person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).