Kaiser v. Northern States Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that landowner was not shielded from liability where his misconduct materially enhanced the risk or created a new risk of harm beyond that assumed by firefighters as incidental to fighting fires
• holding that landowner was not shielded from liability where his misconduct materially enhanced the risk or created a new risk of harm beyond that assumed by firefighters as incidental to fighting fires
• stating that two sets of employees were not engaged in a common activity despite having “a common goal”
• where two employers perform different activities and where the performance of these jobs is only generally related, the “common activity” requirement is not met
• where two employers perform different activities and where the performance of these jobs is only generally related, the \common activity\ requirement is not met
• collateral estoppel works to bar subsequent action where issues previously litigated are identical to issues presently being considered and party bringing claim could have easily joined in prior action to avoid unnecessary relitigation of issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).