Farmers Fertilizer Co. v. Ruh

How courts have described this case

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

• “The economic-loss rule generally prevents recovery in tort of damages for purely economic loss.”
• “When a duty in tort exists, a party may recover in tort. When a duty is premised entirely upon the terms of a contract, a party may recover based upon breach of contract”
• project owner could not evade the economic loss rule by suing a subcontractor in negligence; owner had to sue the general contractor for breach of contract and the general contractor could in turn sue the subcontractor
• barring litigants from recovering in tort for “purely economic losses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).