MacKey v. Campbell Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the imposition of vicarious liability on an employer for injuries sustained by an independent contractor’s servant who was injured when he fell from a scaffold while attempting to move it
• affirming the imposition of vicarious liability on an employer for injuries sustained by an independent contractor's servant who was injured when he fell from a scaffold while attempting to move it
• “the question was not whether trenching work involved a peculiar risk in the abstract, but whether the particular trenching work at the particular time in question involved a peculiar risk of injury.”
• “[In applying section 413], the extent of the knowledge of the employer in the field of work is to be taken into account, i.e., the more extensive his knowledge and experience, the more applicable the rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).