International Minerals & Mining Corp. v. Citicorp North America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where a party does not owe another a duty of care absent the existence of a contract, a separate duty of care cannot arise simply by virtue of the existence of the contract.”
• “Tt has . . . consistently been held that an independent tort action is not cognizable where there is no duty owed to the plaintiff other than the duty arising out of the contract itself.’’
• “It has long been the law that remedies in tort relating to a breach of contract may not be maintained in addition to those established under the Lease itself in the absence of any independent duty owed by the breaching party to the plaintiff.”
• “It has long been the law that remedies in tort relating to a breach of contract may not be maintained in addition to those established under the contract itself in the absence of any independent duty owed by the breaching party to the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).