Lamb v. South Unit Jehovah's Witnesses

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the general rule of nonliability for the conduct of independent contractors is merely \a preamble to the catalog of its exceptions\
• noting that the general rule of nonliability for the conduct of independent contractors is merely “a preamble to the catalog of its exceptions”
• church, who employs independent contractor to connect building with city sewer main, is liable for pedestrian’s injury by contractor’s failure to properly fill in trench
• “As a general rule, an employer is not liable for the acts of an independent contractor or his servants.”
• owner of premises has an absolute, nondelegable duty to the public to ensure premises are safe, and thus can be liable for work negligently performed by independent contractors
• owner of premises has an absolute, nondelegable duty to the public to ensure premises are safe, and thus can be liable for work negligently performed by independent contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).