Sheils v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the owner of the premises has a nondelegable duty to keep the premises reasonably safe for business invitees and is, therefore, liable for an independent contractor's negligence as if it were its own
• indicating that the installation of gas pipes may be inherently dangerous but concluding that the inherently dangerous doctrine did not apply, because the defendant and pipe installer had only a \seller and purchaser\ relationship
• acknowledging the validity of the rule but concluding that the case did not fall within it
• holding that the plaintiffs were not prejudiced by permitting the defendants to amend their answer two months before the retrial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).