Riffle v. Knecht Excavating, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “When the injury is caused by a dangerous instrumentality controlled by a contractor, a property owner generally owes no duty to the contractor’s employees.”
• since an employee could not be held liable, “no action based solely on respondeat superior is maintainable against his employer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).