Peters v. Forster

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a contractor has a duty to use reasonable care in his work and in the course of performance of the work to those who might reasonably be foreseen as being subject to injury by the breach of the duty
• holding that a contractor has a duty to use reasonable care in his work and in the course of performance of the work to those who might reasonably be foreseen as being subject to injury by the breach of the duty
• observing that there can be no negligence absent a breach of duty
• duty of reasonable care owed to those who might reasonably be foreseen as being subject to injury by breach of the duty
• “Absent a duty, there can be no breach of duty and thus no negligence or liability based upon the breach.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).