Rathbun v. Western Massachusetts Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing high duty of care placed on those who transmit electricity
• finding no “general rule” as to whether negligent indemnitee can recover and noting that some prior cases have allowed negligent indemnitee to prevail
• stating general rule that there must be express language creating obligation to indemnify
• “The general rule is that there must be express language creating an obligation to indemnify one against his own negligence.”
• indemnity allowed to party not itself free from fault only in exceptional circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).