Rissler & McMurry Co. v. Sheridan Area Water Supply Joint Powers Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a construction contractor could not sue the project engineer for negligent misrepresentation because of the economic loss rule
• noting there may be cases where the rule would not bar a claim for negligent misrepresentation but not where plaintiff contracted to protect against that harm
• Barring recovery in tort economic damages which are recoverable under a governing contract
• economic loss doctrine barred Restatement (Second) of Torts § 552 claim by contractor against engineer
• “[W]e will not allow [a tort claim] to be used as a method to sidestep contractual duties or to provide a scapegoat for self-inflicted damages.”
• applying doctrine to contract for engineering services

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).