Sanna v. National Sponge Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that duty of landowner to make reasonable inspections to discover hazardous conditions of property nondelegable
• noting that, after reinstatement of plaintiff's negligence action against owner of premises on which he was injured in the course of his employment, negligence of plaintiff's employer (an independent contractor) would be a jury question on the issue of proximate cause
• noting that prior “decisions stressed the degree to which the landowner participated in, actively interfered with, or exercised control over the manner and method of the work being performed at the time of the injury”
• in which the landowner's provision of equipment used by the plaintiff to create a scaffold was a factor in imposing a duty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).