Houston Lighting & Power Company v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that electrical supplier owed no duty in general negligence to construction worker injured by contact with live high-voltage electrical transmission lines on construction site
• holding that electrical supplier owed no duty in general negligence to construction worker injured by contact with live high– voltage electrical transmission lines on construction site
• stating that there “is neither a legal nor moral obligation to guard against that which cannot be foreseen”
• stating that there “is neither a legal nor moral obligation to guard against that which cannot be foreseen”
• electrical supplier owed no duty to construction worker who was injured by contact with live high-voltage electrical transmission lines on construction site
• power company employees in the vicinity of construction project creates no duty in general negligence to project’s construction workers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).