· 5/1/1951
Smyth v. Twin State Improvement Corp.
Citations
- 80 A.2d 664
- 116 Vt. 569
- 25 A.L.R. 2d 1193
- 1951 Vt. LEXIS 134
How courts have described this case
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- cited with approval in McGee v. International Life Ins. Co., 355 U.S. 220, 223 n.2 (1957)
- “[T]he law imposes an obligation upon everyone who attempts to do anything for another, even gratuitously, to exercise some degree of care and skill in the performance of what he has undertaken, for nonperformance of which duty an action lies.”
- “the law imposes an obligation upon everyone who attempts to do anything for another, even gratuitously, to exercise some degree of care and skill in the performance of what he has undertaken, for nonperformance of which duty an action lies.”
- “[T]he law imposes an obligation upon everyone who attempts to do anything for another, even gratuitously, to exercise some degree of care and skill in the performance of what he has undertaken, for nonperformance of which duty an action lies.”
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Judges: Sherburne, Jeffords, Cleary, Adams, Blackmer
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